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Nashville Public Library’s 2026 Summer Reading Challenge runs June 1 through July 31 at all 21 NPL locations, and it’s one of the most practical tools this city has to prevent the summer slide. Participants of all ages register through Beanstack, log their reading, and work through an activity card that earns them prizes along the way — a reusable bag at sign-up, and local business vouchers for every 15 days read or 15 activities completed. The activities themselves are genuinely fun: collect branch trading cards, read a book set in another country, ask a librarian for a recommendation, try a genre you’d normally skip.