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Summer reading usually arrives with good intentions and suspiciously laminated tracking sheets. Parents want children to keep their skills sharp. Librarians want families to walk through the door. Students want July to feel like July, not a stealth extension of school. Phoenix-area libraries seem to understand the assignment: make reading feel less like homework and more like a fossil hunt.

Across the Valley, the 2026 summer reading season has taken … Read the rest