Kids Summer Book Bingo Highlights
October 22, 2024
A huge shoutout to all the young readers who participated in Kids Summer Book Bingo 2024!
As part of our free summer reading program for adults and young people, these middle grade and early readers kept track of the books they read from May to September.
Looking for book recommendations from kids themselves? Here are just a few quotes from our Kids Book Bingo participants on what they most loved to read and why. We are lucky to get to hear directly from these readers about the impact of this program and their love of reading.
Read on, and learn more about Summer Book Bingo here.
What was your favorite book, and why?
The House in the Cerulean Sea because I couldn’t stop laughing. – Allegra
I Need a New Butt because it is funny. – Duncan
The Bad Guys because it had humor in it. – Elinor
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murders. – Brigid
The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues because of all of the French words. – Cecily
My favorite book this summer was Free Boy by Lorraine McConaghy, though this may be influenced by the fact that it’s by my best friend’s grandmother. I found it both interesting and informative about something I knew nothing about. – Dia
A Horse Named Sky because of the beautiful wording and illustrations. – Ellie
Harry Potter because it is fantasy. – Eloise
The Wild Robot Protects because Roz stopped the poison tide. – Ewan
I like reading series of books and following all the characters on different adventures. – Henry
Hunger Games. It had me hanging the whole time! – Jaedon
What was the best part of playing Kids Summer Book Bingo?
Looking at all the different books. – Alice
Trying new genres and challenging myself to a blackout each year. – Allegra Bernstein
Getting a blackout. – Brett
The best part of playing Book Bingo was it was easy! – Damon
Reading different kinds of books. – Daniella
Reading the books and writing the letter to a author because I have never done it before. – Eloise
I love the library and getting new books every week! – Henry
The best part of playing Book Bingo was the effort Isaiah put into working through each of the five books he read to get a row. He pushed himself to read levels that were challenging and only missed two weekdays all summer. He is ready to start first grade strong! – Kim
READING! – Jaedon
Thanks for reading with us, and see you soon for more Summer Book Bingo content!