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Summer Reading Challenge
Earn BadgesRead for 20 minutes every day, track your progress, and earn badges—all through our online reading portal on Beanstack. Sign up now!
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Virtual Summer Camp
Learn and try new skills with our Virtual Summer Camp, a six-week program of exciting and fun activities to complete at home and around your neighborhood.
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Free Summer Programs
Have fun with our wide array of author talks, storytimes, performances, and more exploring our city and the great wide world.
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Download Center
Download and PrintDownload and print an activity and reading tracker, book log, and review pages
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World Languages
Explore what the Library offers kids this summer in:
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Essential Updates
Stay up to date with everything the Library has to offer with regular updates direct to your inbox!
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Library Cards
Get Your Card TodaySign up for a library card for free online today! Access everything the Library has to offer, from free one-on-one online tutoring to e-books, with your library card.
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Personalized Book Bundles
Try It NowTell us what you like to read and we’ll handpick a personalized book bundle just for you! Get Shelf Help in open branches, online, or by calling Ask NYPL.
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SimplyE
DownloadDownload the Library’s free e-reader app, SimplyE, and find over 300,000 e-books and audiobooks to borrow!
Summer Learning 2021
Discover everything the Library has to offer you and your family this summer, including books, free online events, activities, our Virtual Summer Camp, and much more!
Thank You
Major support provided by the New York Life Foundation, the 2021 city-wide sponsor for the Summer Reading and Learning Programs.
Additional support is provided by HSBC Bank USA; The Rona Jaffe Foundation; WarnerMedia; New York Yankees Foundation; The Walt Disney Company; anonymous donors; and the continuing major support of the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Family Endowment for Young Audiences. © 2021 Sesame Workshop. All Rights Reserved.
Major support for educational programming is provided by Merryl H. and James S. Tisch.
Illustrations from You Matter and Another © Christian Robinson. Used by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Illustrations from Last Stop on Market Street © Christian Robinson. Used by permission of Penguin Random House LLC.
Special thanks to illustrator Christian Robinson for permission to feature artwork from You Matter (named one of NYPL’s 2020 Best Books for Kids!), Another, and Last Stop on Market Street. Learn more: theartoffun.com
