Summer Reading Freebies For 2025

Looking for a way to make summer reading even more fun for your kids? It’s easy with all these summer reading freebies as an incentive (and maybe something for you too). Let’s break open the books on these fantastic summer reading programs for 2025!

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Here are 2025’s incredible summer reading freebies:

1. Barnes & Noble: Kids in grades 1–6 can earn a free book by reading any eight books this summer, recording their favorite moments in the 2025 Summer Reading Journal, and bringing the completed journal to a Barnes & Noble store between July 1 and August 31, 2025.
2. Books-a-Million: Read any four books from the Summer Reading Adventure, fill out the 2025 logbook, and present it at your local store to score a free branded backpack!
3. Chuck E. Cheese: Track two weeks of summer reading with the Reading Rewards Calendar and earn 10 free play points to use on tokens, prizes, and more!
4. Half Price Books: Starting June 1, 2025, sign up for HPB’s Summer Reading Camp to get printable reading logs, activity sheets, and earn $5 Bookworm Bucks for completed logs during July and August.
5. Imagination Library: Children from birth to age 5 can receive a free book every month through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library—check availability online to see if your family qualifies!
6. Local Library: Visit PublicLibraries.com to find your state’s public library directory, then check your local library’s summer reading program for books, challenges, and prizes this summer.
7. Mensa for Kids: Kids under 18 (plus teachers and librarians) can take on the Excellence in Reading challenge—complete your reading list, submit your log, and earn a certificate plus a free T-shirt!
8. Panda Express: Enroll in the Read With Me program, help kids read five books, and they’ll earn a digital coupon for a free Kids Meal at participating Panda Express locations.
9. Pizza Hut Book It!: From June through August, Pre-K through 6th graders who meet parent- or teacher-set reading goals can earn up to five free Personal Pan Pizzas per family—one per child each month—via the free BOOK IT! app.
10. Reading with the Rays: Kicks off May 25, 2025—download the game card, “run the bases” by logging your reading, and earn prizes like free Rays tickets, team swag, and more!
11. Scholastic: From May 9 through September 12, 2025, dive into the free Summer Reading zone on Scholastic Home Base—read stories, attend author events, play games, and unlock digital rewards by keeping a Reading Streak™.
12. Seahawks: Join the Seattle Seahawks’ 12 Pages Summer Reading Challenge—read and log minutes all summer to unlock prizes, monthly rewards, and even a Blitz school visit! Registration opens soon for 2025.
13. Showcase Cinemas: Bookworm Wednesdays gives kids free admission to a select children’s film at participating Cinema de Lux, Showcase, or Multiplex theaters every Wednesday in July—just present a book report at the box office!

* Summer reading program rules vary by company. Most are U.S. only.