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iREAD 2025 Showcase
Learn all about the 2025 iREAD theme: Level Up at Your Library. Get inspired with ideas for decorations, programs, and more!
iREAD Resource Guide Deep Dive: Programming, Crafts, Maker Ideas, Resource Guide Tips & Tricks
Join iREAD Content and Development Manager, Becca Boland, for a deep dive into the 2025 iREAD: Level Up at Your Library Resource Guide. This session will focus on programming - crafts, maker ideas, large-scale, and passive programming.
Becca will also highlight helpful and often overlooked sections of the Resource Guide and give you tips and tricks for planning for Level Up at Your Library.
READ Resource Guide Deep Dive: Decorations, Displays, Resource Guide Tips & Tricks
Join iREAD Content and Development Manager, Becca Boland, for a deep dive into the 2025 iREAD: Level Up at Your Library Resource Guide. This session will focus on getting your library ready for summer with decorations and displays.
Becca will also highlight helpful and often overlooked sections of the Resource Guide and give you tips and tricks for planning for Level Up at Your Library.
Build Your Character, Level Up at Your Library
Join Guardian Adventures and iREAD for a deep dive into Build Your Character-- a role playing game (RPG) Character Sheet (found in the 2025 Resource Guide) to supplement your summer reading logs.
Discover how to turn your reading challenge into a mini adventure and your library into a magical realm this summer. Want to jump in on the fun? Sign up for this webinar to learn how to run this exciting program and start building your character today.
Reading Dragons and Friends
Reading Dragons and Friends is a fun way to motivate kids to build positive reading habits. Join the Reading Dragons and Friends creators Mallory Thompson and Liz Strauss and artist Carey Pietsch for an informative session about their collaboration on a special iREAD version of this fun reading incentive that you can use at your library. You can also find more information at the Reading Dragons website!
Baker & Taylor Summer Reading 2025 Kick off with iREAD
Join Sara Shepard, Western Children’s & Teen Services (CATS) Manager at Baker & Taylor and Becca Boland, iREAD’s Content and Development Manager, to learn more about the books, programs and more available with the 2025 iREAD program, Level Up at your Library! As partners, Baker & Taylor and iREAD have joined forces and we’ll also discuss our themed titles on the Summer Prize book list!