The 2025 JourneyForth Summer Reading Challenge starts June 1!
Are you ready to make reading a part of your summer and earn cool prizes? JourneyForth invites you to visit new places, meet new characters, and experience amazing adventures this summer. Our Summer Reading Challenge encourages you to develop a habit of reading and discover your new favorite book.
How It Works
Register.
- Parents/guardians (US residents only), enroll your children ages 4–17 starting June 1 using the button below.
- For more information, please read our rules and requirements (PDF).
Read!
- Parents/guardians, download and print a reading log for each student participating in the challenge.
- Kids and teens, read for 15 minutes a day for 40 days between June 1 and August 19, 2025. Don’t forget to fill in your log too!
- Read any book in any genre and any format: print books, eBooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, etc.
- Listening to family members and friends read aloud counts too!
- Reading days do not need to be consecutive.
Submit.
- Parents/guardians, starting July 10, submit a completion form for each child using the button below.
- Download and print a completion certificate.
- To be eligible for prizes, you must submit the completion form on or before August 19, 2025.
You could win these awesome prizes!
- Every participant who completes the challenge will receive a small prize.
- Five winners will be randomly chosen each week to receive a free book.
- Nine grand prize winners, three from each age group (ages 4-8, 9-12, 13-17), will be chosen to receive a tote bag filled with JourneyForth titles!
Prizes are available while supplies last and will be mailed to participants starting on Friday, July 18, 2025. Weekly book drawings will be held on July 17, 24 & 31 and August 7 & 14. The completion form (available starting July 10) serves as the entry form to both the weekly and the grand prize drawings. The form must be submitted on or before August 19, 2025, in order to receive a completion prize and entry into the prize drawings. For more information, please read our rules and requirements (PDF).
Need book ideas?
Check out our suggested reading list for each age group.
Are participants required to read books from the suggested reading lists? Not at all! Reading is more enjoyable when you pick out books that interest you. These are books that we have enjoyed and hope you will too. As always, we recommend that parents and guardians assist their children in choosing reading material that’s age-appropriate and suited to their tastes and interests.
Questions?
Contact us at [email protected]
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