yellow bird with a book in its beak Summer Reading at Thomas Crane Library

Do you need to keep track of your summer reading for school? Do you need to hand in a list of books? Are you curious to see just how much you can read this summer? Use our online summer reading site to log book titles. You can print it out for school or for yourself and you can even write reviews of the books you've read.

For an added summer challenge, check out the "Open the Window" Reading Challenge II list below. Read all the picture books on the list for the Picture Book Challenge, read all the beginning readers and beginning chapters for the Readers Challenge, read all the chapter books on the list for the Novel Challenge, or read the entire list for the Super Challenge and fill in one of our forms. On September 25th we'll be having a celebration with sculptor Dan Meyers, who will award medals to kids who completed a challenge.

Picture Books Beginning Readers and Beginning Chapters Novels
The Stinky Cheese Man
Olivia Saves the Circus
Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire
Curious George Flies a Kite
Max Found Two Sticks
Bear Feels Scared
Bad Case of Stripes
Strega Nona's Harvest
Madeline and the Gypsies
Arthur's Nose
Who Sank the Boat?
Miss Rumphius
Little Bear
Danny and the Dinosaur
Days with Frog and Toad
Mr. Putter and Tabby Paint the Porch
Pigs Make Me Sneeze
Biscuit Takes a Walk
Cam Jansen & the Green School Mystery
Summer Reading is Killing Me
The Field Guide (Spiderwick Chronicles #1)
Gooney Bird Greene
Ruby Lu Brave and True
Flat Stanley
Invention of Hugo Cabret Ramona Quimby, Age 8
The Dark is Rising
Wild River
Little House in the Big Woods
Superfudge
Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective
Say What?
Homeless Bird
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Birthday Ball
When You Reach Me

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