Summer Reading 2025 is here!
Summer Reading Adventures Await You and the Whole Family at Southeast Oklahoma Library System. Your local library is the place to be this summer! You will see activities, books, and programs that center around the 2025 Summer Reading theme, Color Our World.
All 17 libraries and our Bookmobile will be hosting a variety of activities during the summer, including educational programs, reading challenges, craft projects, story times, performances, and more.
Summer Reading Prevents the Summer Slide
For young people, Summer Reading is more than just fun. It actually helps prevent the summer learning slide. Children who do not read and do not continue learning during their summer vacations can lose two months of achievement and fall behind in school. Keeping young people reading and learning during their summer vacation is key to the future success of students.
To enhance your local Summer Reading program, here's some more resources that parents can use to help their children keep learning during their summer vacations:
How to Prevent Your Kids From Losing What They Learned in School During Summer Vacation
Upcoming Events
ozy up with a great story this season in our Falling for Fiction: November Book Box Raffle!
This fall, discover the magic of autumn with science and art! Young alchemists will design their own paper leaves and then use water to reveal how colors can mix and change.
Arts & Crafts
Climb aboard the Bookmobile for our Thankful & Colorful Coloring Fest! This month’s art station is filled with Thanksgiving cheer, featuring turkeys, pumpkins, and fall leaves ready to come to life with your creativity.
As the air turns crisp and the leaves fall, curl up with a mystery that feels like autumn itself. Each prewrapped book offers warm, small-town secrets and puzzling whodunits—bundled with a treat to make your fall reading even cozier.
Take and Make for the month of November will be Mini Corn Keychains.
Take and Make for the month of November will be a Thankful Tree. Children can put leaves on a paper tree and the leaves will have things that they are thankful for written on them. Come and pick you up one to make . .
Take and Make for October will be mounting your own deer head. Sounds different but could be fun. Come and pick one up.
Arts & Crafts
Get ready for a colorful science adventure! Join us as we explore the Magic Milk Experiment, a fun activity where ordinary milk turns into a swirling rainbow of colors.
Storytime
Join us for a gentle sensory-friendly storytime that is thoughtfully designed to be sensory-friendly and inclusive for all children and families.
This program is supported in whole or in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services & Technology Act, administered by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.