Kicking-off Saturday, June 22, play, learn, and explore at the library for a summer full of fun!
Check our calendar for events & performers throughout the summer.
Our Summer Quest learning program hosts a variety of free, fun activities to stay active, expand knowledge, and engage with the community when school is out! Each year, the programs and performers change, but you can be sure to find:
- Entertainers and animals touring our libraries
- Limited-edition Badge Squad: Summer Quest badges
- Logs to track and challenge your summer reading
- Hands-on STEM activities
- Sensory experiences
- Physical challenges
- Arts & crafts
- Storytimes
- And so much more!
New This Year!
Bucks County readers will help a community in need! With your help, each branch will choose an animal to donate through Heifer International. Throughout the summer, your reading minutes will count as a vote for an animal and add to our custom animal murals. The more you read, the more you can vote! Track which animal is in the lead until we announce the winner at each branch.
By popular demand, teens & adults can now earn limited edition Badge Squad: Summer Quest badges along with the kids!
Lasers, horseshoe crabs, and superhuman strength (oh my)! Prismatic Magic Laser Programs, Center for Aquatic Sciences, and Strongman Eric Moss are some of the new performers visiting Bucks County libraries this summer!
Begin Your Quest
Beginning June 22, we challenge YOU to sign up and log your summer reading minutes! Stop by your branch for your reading log or download one of the logs below. Visit the library with your reading log to cast your animal donation votes and help us complete our murals.
For Pre-Schoolers and their Adults
Visit the library for storytime throughout the summer! Learn, grow, and read by completing reading log challenges. Use your reading minutes to vote for an animal donation at your branch.
For Kids
Earn special Badge Squad: Summer Quest badges by completing challenges at the library! Have an idea for a badge? Design your own during our Badge Contest. Use your reading minutes to vote for an animal donation at your branch.
For Teens & Adults
For the first time, earn special Badge Squad: Summer Quest badges by completing reading log challenges! Design a new badge during our Badge Contest. Use your reading minutes to vote for an animal donation at your branch. Find your next great read at: cloudLibrary, hoopla, NextReads, NoveList
Share what you’re reading on social media by tagging #BucksCountyReads. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as BucksCtyLib.
Congratulations to Anna Belasco, winner of our Summer Quest Badge Design Contest! Anna's winning design, "Map Mania," will become part of our popular Badge Squad program. When that happens, kids will be able to earn a Map Mania cloth badge and engage in Map Mania-related activities. Thanks to our guest judges, Blair Rush of Covenant Bank and Justin Bursk of @neshaminy_sd for helping to select the winner from among all the great entries! Learn more about Badge Squad on our website. . . . . . #BucksCountyFreeLibrary #BucksCounty #BucksCountyReads #SummerQuest #LibrariesofInstagram #Bensalem #Doylestown #Langhorne #Levittown #Perkasie #Quakertown #Yardley
Why don't you have the eBook or eAudiobook I'm looking for? Why is there a waitlist for a title I want? Is there anywhere I can find eBooks and eAudiobooks that I don't have to wait for? Visit our Downloads and Streaming FAQ page to get the answers to these questions and more: https://buckslib.org/downloadsfaq/ . . . . . #BucksCountyReads #BucksCounty #AmReading #BucksCountyFreeLibrary #Library #Bensalem #Doylestown #Langhorne #Levittown #Perkasie #Quakertown #Yardley
It's #BookLoversDay. What are you reading today, #BucksCounty ? . . . . . . #BucksCountyReads
YARDSTOCK 2K19 is a wrap! Thanks to the Beat Tells for an amazing concert! Watching our library kids be introduced to classic music for the first time was AMAZING! And thanks to the Friends of the Library for making it possible for our community to “come together” and celebrate peace, music, and libraries! ✌️ ☮️ ❤️. #yardstock2k19 #buckscountyreads #summerquest #librarylove
What a day! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the first ever Yardstock with us! Thanks to our wonderful performers, Frank (Music Play Patrol) and Gaston (Rockness Music). And thanks to The Friends of the Library for making Yardstock possible! ✌️☮️🌈🌸. . . #YARDSTOCK2k19 #buckscountyreads #summerquest
You read, counted your minutes, and voted, and now we can announce the winners! Thanks to you, we will be donating seven animals to communities in need! AND THE WINNERS ARE: #Bensalem Branch -- sheep; #Doylestown Branch -- goat and honeybees; #Langhorne Branch -- goat and honeybees; #Levittown Branch -- goat and honeybees; #Perkasie Branch -- llama; #Quakertown Branch -- goat and honeybees; and #Yardley -Makefield Branch -- sheep. ... #BucksCountyReads #SummerQuest #BucksCounty #BucksCountyFreeLibrary
We had a great time making crafts for our friends and earning our Creme de la Friend badge! Picture frames, colorful rocks, and one-of-a-kind cutouts...what’s YOUR favorite gift to give to your friends? #buckscountyreads #summerquest 🥳💃🕺💐
We’re enjoying a visit from the Briar Bush StarLab Planetarium and earning our Space Ace badge at the Doylestown branch today! #SummerQuest #buckscountyreads #doylestownbranch
We did it!!! The sheep won, but you can still bring in your Summer Quest logs to help us fill in the pig. Thanks to all all who helped make this possible. You are ⭐️ in our book. #buckscountyreads #yardley #summerquest #library 🎉🎉🐑 📖
Sheep, pig, Summer Quest...oh my!! We’re so close to reaching our goal; come on in and log your minutes read. Let’s get those votes in. 🐑🐖📖 #buckscountyreads #SummerQuest #yardley #library
Ethan just earned all six #summerquest badges to become a Badge Master! 🎉🎈🎉 If you’ve missed any of the six limited edition badges this summer, no worries. Look for Summer Quest Badge Rewind programs coming up at a branch near you for another chance to earn ‘em all! #buckscountyreads #perkasiebranch
We had a BALL setting up a dance party by making invitations, party hats, and noise makers. Then we got our groove on, made some friends, and took home our Crème de la Friend badge. It was DEFINITELY a good time! 🎈🎉💃. . . #buckscountyreads #summerquest #friendshipisthebestship
Summer Quest 2019 is made possible, in part, through the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program and the following donors:
Contact Michelle Wexler, Development Director, to learn how your business can partner with BCFL to make a meaningful impact on the Bucks County community.
