This year's Summer Reading Challenge, Animal Agents, took place in libraries all over the UK during the summer holidays. See how this year's Challenge unfolded, from author visits to detective disguises, special spy training to crafts and coding, and the appearance of some special furry friends.
Read about the shortlist for this year's prize, celebrating the best books that communicate science to young people.
Check out the Summer Reading Challenge website where children can chat, get reading recommendations and play games.
Find out more about Reading Hack, Reading Ahead and Reading Well for young people
Reading for pleasure is more important to children’s successes than education or social class. The Summer Reading Challenge gets three quarters of a million children into libraries to keep up their reading skills and confidence during the long holidays while Chatterbooks reading groups help build a lifelong reading habit. Because everything changes when we read.
