2025 LEVEL UP AT YOUR LIBRARY Summer Reading at Princeton Public Library for Youth & Adults/Teens |

Track your reading minutes (Youth) or number of books read (Adult/Teen) on the Reader Zone app for Android, Apple, or Amazon devices (or at readerzone.com). You may sign up at any time to create an account using our Reading Program Code 0356b (you may have multiple readers for one account). Begin logging your reading between June 16 and August 2. There will be incentives along the way and you will be entered in our Grand Prize Raffle drawings the first week of August.

2025 Youth Summer Reading Prize Registry

The prizes for Youth Summer Reading (for ages 2-14) are on display in the main circulation lobby, but you can also see them on our registration form HERE. Your total reading minutes entitle you to enter drawings for THREE of the 19 reading prizes pictured. Check the boxes for the THREE prizes you would like. We will weight each prize drawing by the number of minutes each reader has read. (You may go back and edit your responses before the last day of summer reading, August 2).

Summer Reading Programs

Storytime (Preschool and up)

Every Tuesday • 10:30 am • Matson Meeting Room

Elementary Crafting Sessions

Thursday, June 26 • 10:30 am • Matson Meeting Room
Paint-Pour Flowerpots—Decorate a mini-flowerpot with drippy paint. A great gift or bright spot for a windowsill.
Thursday, July 3 • 10:30 am • Matson Meeting Room
Block Collograph Prints—Create printing blocks from foam, from wood blocks, and from fruit to create a unique collage print.
Thursday, July 10 • 10:30 am • Matson Meeting Room
Cardboard City—Upcycling cardboard boxes into a miniature world. How big can we make our cardboard community? This will be a makerspace for the entire week of July 7 (as well as the preschool storytime craft), so if you can’t come to the Thursday craft, stop in anytime!
Thursday, July 17 • 10:30 am • Matson Meeting Room
Hammered Flower Prints—Create beautiful botanical prints by placing fresh flowers and leaves on fabric and gently hammering them to transfer their colorful pigments.
Thursday, July 20 • 10:30 am • Matson Meeting Room
Bug Hotel—Help out your backyard biome with shelter for the littlest creatures in your yard or garden NOTE: We’re collecting washed out paper milk cartons and twigs (please cut to 24″ length or shorter) for this.

Life-Sized Candy Land

Friday, June 20 • 10:30 am • Main Circulation and Youth Services
Play as a Gingerbread Kid yourself and meet the characters from the classic game (portrayed by students from the PHS Drama Department)! We’ll keep the game up through June 27 for more fun (without the cast).

Scary Stories with Tricia Kelly

Tuesday, June 26 • 6 pm • Matson Meeting Room
Storyteller Tricia Kelly will send shivers up your spine with some (not-too) shivery tales.

Princeton Summer Youth Band Concert

Friday, July 11 • 2 pm • Main Circulation Area

**A Little Mermaid Event with Festival 56**

Monday, July 14 • Time and place to be determined
Bring two copies of your favorite recipe (we’ll copy for all participants) and share where the recipe comes from, why you like it, and memories you have of preparing or serving it.