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Dive Into Discovery

Summer Learning 2025

June 1 - August 31

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Reading is Shrimply Awesome

Dive into discovery with Kitsap Regional Library. Attend live concerts and shows, join cool events, crush challenges, and win awesome prizes!

Summer Learning Guide

Everything you need to participate in Summer Learning 2025, June 1 to August 31, is right here! Download our guide or pick one up at your favorite branch!

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Reading Something Challenge Prizes

Read 10 Hours

Pick a book or journal.

Read 50 Hours

Earn a tote bag.

Read 100 Hours

Choose between a 100-hour reader shirt or enamel pin.

Explore Helpful Reading Tools

NoveList Plus

Expand your reading list. Discover fiction and nonfiction book recommendations for all your reading interests.

Book Bundles

Browse titles to go! Take a collection of books home to peruse at your leisure. Each Book Bundle comes with 3-10 items selected for you.

BookMatch

Looking for something new to read? Ask a librarian. Tell us what you love to read, and we'll email you a list of five titles just for you.

NoveList Plus

Expand your reading list. Discover fiction and nonfiction book recommendations for all your reading interests.

Book Bundles

Browse titles to go! Take a collection of books home to peruse at your leisure. Each Book Bundle comes with 3-10 items selected for you.

BookMatch

Looking for something new to read? Ask a librarian. Tell us what you love to read, and we'll email you a list of five titles just for you.

Download the Library App

Download the Kitsap Regional Library app and connect with the Library anytime, anywhere. Use the app to search the catalog, place holds, manage your account, and more!

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Do Something Challenge

Make this a summer of adventure and try something new and fun. You could learn a skill or investigate something you've always wanted to know more about—maybe both! Map our your summer plan, then, once you reach your goal, tell us your summer story about what you learned during the challenge by sharing your story with us to be entered into the end-of-summer prize drawing.

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End-of-Summer Prize Drawing

To enter the drawing, write what you learned during the Do Something Challenge by answering the questions in the Summer Story section of the Summer Learning Guide. Then, fill out the form on the back of the page and submit it at any branch by August 31 to enter the end-of-summer prize drawing.

Read Local

Enjoy a $150 certificate to your favorite local bookstore.

Switch It Up

Score a Nintendo Switch Lite and a $70 download card or a new game.

See Creatures

Enjoy a membership pass to visit your favorite local zoo or aquarium.

Read Deeply with Staff-Curated Booklists

Exploring the Ocean's Depths

There is plenty of life beneath the ocean's surface, as these nonfiction books and documentaries show.

YA: On Strange Tides

Explore what lies beyond shores and in the deep with these YA titles that take place on or in the water.

Kids: Fanta-sea

Sail away with these fantasy books that are set in and around the water, celebrating the magic of the deep.

Life Aquatic

Focusing on characters whose lives revolve around the real and imagined worlds under the ocean waves.

Exploring the Ocean's Depths

There is plenty of life beneath the ocean's surface, as these nonfiction books and documentaries show.

YA: On Strange Tides

Explore what lies beyond shores and in the deep with these YA titles that take place on or in the water.

Kids: Fanta-sea

Sail away with these fantasy books that are set in and around the water, celebrating the magic of the deep.

Life Aquatic

Focusing on characters whose lives revolve around the real and imagined worlds under the ocean waves.

Explore Widely with Free Learning Resources

Creativebug

Explore your creative side with 1,000+ video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing, and more!

ArtistWorks

Learn music whether you're a practiced musician or just getting started. Explore self-paced, video lessons from music professionals.

Mango Languages

Mango makes language learning easy, with over 70 courses available, including Spanish, French and more.

Brainfuse: Chess Practice

Learn chess strategies and improve your game with expert chess coaches.

Creativebug

Explore your creative side with 1,000+ video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing, and more!

ArtistWorks

Learn music whether you're a practiced musician or just getting started. Explore self-paced, video lessons from music professionals.

Mango Languages

Mango makes language learning easy, with over 70 courses available, including Spanish, French and more.

Brainfuse: Chess Practice

Learn chess strategies and improve your game with expert chess coaches.

Listen & Learn this Summer

Audiobooks count for the Read Something Challenge!

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Seattle Storm

Kids and teens, start your summer with a slam dunk! The Seattle Storm proudly supports Summer Learning, so youth readers who finish 10 hours of reading will get a voucher for two tickets to a game!

Each 10-hour youth reader can get up to four tickets, and each household can get up to eight tickets, while supplies last.

Youth transit is free with an ORCA card or student ID. For more information on free public transportation in Seattle on game day, visit seattlestorm.com.

Youth Ride Free!

Anyone 18 or under can ride buses, ferries, and trains for free in the Puget Sound with a student ID or a Youth ORCA card. To learn more and get a free Youth ORCA card, visit FreeYouthTransitPass.com.

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Summer Field Notes

What happened in this sea-son of learning and discovery? Share your stories and photos with us online!

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Summer Performances

Get your groove on in the summer sunshine with live music, dance, and magic performances!

Summer Learning Performances

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Gansango performs for a summer crowd.
Young patrons having a blast at the summer foam party.
A crowd gathers to watch the Youth Talent Show during Port Orchard's Waterfront Wednesdays.
Singer. songwriter, and author Eric Ode poses with guitar.
Musician Eduardo Mendoca sings and plays guitar.
School of Taiko drummers performing.
Magician Jeff Evans smiles amongst confetti.
West Sound Wildlife Shelter staff holds an owl.
La Vuelta Luna Traveling Circus performers.
Joyas Mestizas dancers perform for the crowd.
A Science Heroes presenter smiles at a young attendee.
Mikey the Rad Scientist smiles for the camera.

Kids & Teens Summer Events

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Free Lunches in Bremerton & Port Orchard

Kids 18 and under can enjoy free lunches at the library!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Branch

Wednesdays, June 25 - August 13
11:30 - 11:50 am

 

Sylvan Way Branch

Monday - Friday, June 23 - August 15 (except Friday, July 4)
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm

Free lunches are provided courtesy of the Bremerton School District. For more dates and locations, visit bremertonschools.org/summermeals.

Port Orchard Branch

Wednesdays, July 10 - August 14
12:15 - 12:30 pm

Free lunches are provided at the end of the Waterfront Wednesday programs, courtesy of the South Kitsap School District.

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Thank You for Your Support!

Summer Learning is funded in part by generous donors of Kitsap Regional Library Foundation and Friends of the Library groups. Thank you, donors!

Looking for more information on prizes and affiliations? Review our Summer Learning Disclaimers.

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