Summer Reading Challenge 2019 | Los Angeles Public Library

It's showtime this summer at the Los Angeles Public Library

Join our Summer Reading Challenge and log your progress to collect points—and a chance to win rewards—for reading, completing activities, writing book reviews, attending library events, and more.

Read

Find books for kids, teens, and adults
Keep track of your reading and activities online or on the paper game board.
Get the Tracker App to log your progress on the go.

Create

Teens: submit to the first annual Teens of L.A. Film Festival.
Our new digital media lab and creation space, the Octavia Lab, opens this June.

Discover

Browse our calendar for events and programs around the city.
Meet and connect with authors.
Reserve a free pass to museums and attractions with Explore L.A.
And enjoy free lunch for kids and teens at participating library branches.

Summer at the Library is generously supported by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and its donors:

Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund, Council of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Victoria Foote Endowment, Flora Thornton Endowment, Maxwell H. and Muriel S. Gluck Endowment Fund, Marjorie Luttenbacher, Walter J. & Holly O. Thomson Foundation, Walt Disney Company, Hitachi Southern California Regional Community Action Committee, Albert Parvin Foundation, and Morrison & Foerster Foundation.

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The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States.

Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities.

With more people than ever before using the library—a record 17 million last year alone—your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive.

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Join a “Friends” group. There is a “Friends of the Library” group for most branch libraries and departments of the Central Library. Friends groups raise money for improvements to their library through memberships, used book sales and other activities. For more information click here or talk to your local librarian.

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