Western Counties Regional Library’s 2025 Summer Reading Club is taking a trip ‘Around the World’.
Readers young and old can set out on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure to faraway places. Through reading and programs, they will let the wind carry them through arid deserts, over snow-capped mountains and across glittering oceans as they fill their travel journals with photos and share their treasured memories in postcards home.
The club runs from Saturday, June 21 to Saturday, Aug. 23 at the library’s 10 branches in Digby, Shelburne and Yarmouth counties.
“Kids, teens, adults are all able to be part of the summer reading club,” says Breanne Muise, the library’s Programs and Services Manager. “And, there are rewards for the whole family.”
The club offers reading reward draw prizes in all three age groups, lots of in-person, world-travel-themed programming, and StoryWalks, featuring Julie Flett’s book Let’s Go! haw êkwa!. StoryWalks are set up outdoors on page-by-page stands in and around many of the library’s branches.
“Area businesses and organizations continue to step up to support this literacy program for children, teens and adults by providing the prizes as reading rewards,” Muise says.
Programs include golf using ball-shaped robots, discovering music and musical instruments, crafts, story times, learning about Mi’kmaw culture and science camps. All programming is listed in the events section on the library website at westerncounties.ca/events-calendar/.
To enter the draws, children must register for the club with their local branch library. Every child registering at the library receives a reading log and a web access code to register online at https://www.tdsummerreadingclub.ca/. Teens and adults can sign up at their nearest library branch.
The Children’s Summer Reading Club is for children up to the Grade 6 level. The teen club is for students entering Grades 6 or higher, up to age 18. The adult club is for people aged 18 and older.