Successful Summer Reading Programs for All Ages: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Practical guides for librarians

by Katie Fitzgerald

The summer reading program is the focal point of a children’s librarian’s year, requiring countless hours of preparation and promotion nearly year-round. Summer reading programs for teens and adults are also offered in many communities, adding to that workload and bringing together librarians from different departments to accomplish the required tasks. In a single volume, Successful Summer Reading Programs for All Ages: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides the tools necessary to put together successful summer reading programs for each of these different age groups.

Genres: Nonfiction

110 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2018

About the author

Katie Fitzgerald is the author of over 50 published pieces of short fiction, most of which are clean contemporary romance. Her short stories and flash fiction appear online at Havok Publishing, Syncopation Literary Journal, Painted Pebble Lit Mag, Spillwords.com, Spark Flash Fiction and Micromance Magazine. Her serial romance, "The Plus One Pact" appears quarterly in Clean Fiction. She has also been published in Woman's World. Her stand-alone ebook short romances and anthologies including her work can be found on Amazon.

She is a 2024 Sparkie Award recipient for Best Romantic Suspense, a 2024 nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist in three categories of the 2025 Cupid Prize. She was also the winner of Spark Flash Fiction's 2025 contest. A graduate of Vassar College and a trained librarian, Katie resides in Maryland with her family.