Do you have what it takes to earn all 6 limited edition Summer Quest badges? This summer’s badges will take you deep into the world of cooking, comics, cinema and more!
To earn badges, complete two listed activities from each badge on the teen/adult summer reading log. If you’re helping an elementary school student earn badges, you can pick up Badge Squad activity cards at your branch or print them at home.
For most badges, you can check out books, movies, magazines, and other library items to help you earn the badge. Here are some suggested items!
Reel Life Badge
Book and Movie Pairings
- Call Me By Your Name: Book Version, Movie Version
- Crazy Rich Asians: Book Version, Movie Version
- Dune: Book Version, Movie Version
- The Godfather: Book Version, Movie Version
- Hidden Figures: Book Version, Movie Version
- Jurassic Park: Book Version, Movie Version
- Room: Book Version, Movie Version
- Stardust: Book Version, Movie Version
Documentaries We Love
- The Beatles: Get Back
- Free Solo
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- O.J.: Made in America
- Summer of Soul
- They Shall Not Grow Old
- Three Identical Strangers
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Fantastic Foodie Badge
Summer Cookbooks
- How to Grill Vegetables by Steven Raichlen
- Pie Academy by Ken Haedrich
- Pulp: A Practical Guide to Cooking with Fruit by Abra Berens
- Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ by Rodney Scott
- Rose’s Ice Cream Bliss by Rose Levy Beranbaum
- The Summer Table by Lisa Lemke
- Tables & Spreads by Shelly Westerhausen
Prefer to get your recipes from magazines? Access dozens of cooking magazines through Flipster or cloudLibrary.
Memoirs/Biographies of Famous Chefs
- Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang
- Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story by Erin French
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi
- Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
- Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More by Fatima Ali
Drawn to Stories Badge
LinkedIn Learning Courses for Artists
Your library card gives you free, unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning! Log in to LinkedIn Learning with your library card and PIN to take one of these courses for artists:
- Drawing Foundations: Fundamentals
- Drawing Foundations: Light and Shadow
- Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape
- Improve Your Drawing and Painting Skills
- Artist at Work: From Sketch to Finished Vector Illustration
- Illustrator: Digitizing and Refining Sketches
- Learning Illustrator Draw
Graphic Novel Adaptations of Classics
- 1984 by George Orwell, adapted by Fido Nesti
- Anne Frank’s Diary, adapted by Ari Folman
- Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, adapted by Lilah Sturges
- The Giver by Lois Lowry, adapted by P. Craig Russell
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, adapted by Renee Nault
- The Iliad by Homer, adapted by Gareth Hinds
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, adapted by Fred Fordham
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, adapted by Hope Larson
The MVP Badge
Take home the MVP badge by trying a new sport, borrowing a sports magazine, learning about a sport played in another country or reimagining a team’s logo.
Digital Magazines
You can read magazines for free through your desktop, smartphone, or tablet! Here are just some of the sports and athletics magazines available through three library apps: hoopla, cloudLibrary, and Flipster.
Hoopla (access by borrowing a BingePass): Bicycling, Boating, Car and Driver, Golf Magazine, Golf Tips, Outside, Runner’s World, Sailing World, Salt Water Sportsman, Tennis, and more
CloudLibrary: Runner’s World, Bicycling, Baseball America, Beckett Basketball, Beckett Football, Horse and Rider, Backcountry Magazine, and more
Flipster: Sports Illustrated, Car and Driver, Outside, Field & Stream, Yoga Journal, Backpacker and more
Library Legend Badge
Backyard Games and Kits
- Birdwatching Kit
- Bocce Ball
- Cornhole
- Croquet
- Jumbo Checkers & Tic Tac Toe Rug
- Ladder Toss
- Paddle Ball
- Ring Toss
- Speedminton
- Washer Toss
Book Club in a Bag Kits
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
