Sumter County Library's 2026 Summer Reading Program!

Winners of Grand Prize Summer Reading 2026

The Winners of our Grand Prizes Announced

Winners will be contacted by the number they used for the entry. Your prize will be held at the library where you dropped off your completed reading log.

If you are not sure where to pick up your prize or would like to pick it up at a different location please call the Main Library at (803) - 773 - 7273

Early Readers (10 Prizes)

Ages 0 - 2

Fisher-Price Smart walker

Isabella Glowacki

Baysing Crawling Music Turtle

Wren Simmons

3D Animal Puzzle

Anastasia Branham

Vtech Chomp and Count Dino

Edison Marsh

Topsochir Sensory Caterpillar Toy

Alessio Youssef

Ages 3 - 4

DIY Pegboard Build Kit

Gideon Polaski

DUPLO Car and Truck Builder Set

George Polaski

Likee Open-Ended Wooden Shape Puzzles

Willa Bushaw

Wooden Stacking Dinosaurs

Ellie Chung

Dinosaur Magnet Train Set

Bodhi Brown

Children and Tweens (22 Prizes)

Lego Creation Kit

(Toucan/Butterfly/Fish)

Olivia Lee

(Flamingo/Cockatiel/Axolotl)

Rose Kee
Fadel Murrar
Theodore Schafer
Nolan Van Normen

(Velociraptor/Stegosaurus/Pterosaur)

Anistyn Atkins
Daltyn Avance
Bella-Mae Brunson
San'Ta James
Lawson Kelly
Sterling Nelson
Callan Oltman
Ja'mere Pack
Maddison Schulz
Khole Windsor

National Geographic Mega Craft Mosaic Kit

Taylor Hall
Kenzie Larson

Choopheme Walkie Talkie Building Kit

Cyrus Galas
Hampton Jones

Sillbird Solar Robot Building Kit

Rae Bushaw
Addison Clark

Teens (7 Prizes)

Bluetooth Alarm Clock

Julia Mathys
Andrei Moldevan

Acrylic Markers

Micah Bates
Danica Dempsey
Abigail Hodge

Karaoke and Bluetooth Speaker

Julian Diaz-Guzman
Gage Hodge

2026 Summer Reading Program Sponsors and Partners

Sponsors of the Summer Reading Program

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Special thanks to the Friends of the Sumter County Library, who help make our Summer Reading Program possible through their continued funding of library programming.

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The Following programs were made possible by a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the South Carolina State Library.

Dino Dot Art
Build Your Own Dinosaur
Outdoor Fossil Excavation Hunt
Make a Quill
Dino Topical Diorama
Dinosaur Noodle Art
Play-Doh Geology Activity (What’s In Your Soil?)
Make a Fossil
Bone Game Sculpture
Revolutionary War Codebreakers

The South Carolina State Library provided supplementary materials for our summer reading program and other libraries around the state.

Local Partners and Donors

Mid Carolina Exterminating sprayed the Wesmark Library lawn for pests before the Outdoor Fossil Excavation Hunt program on June 25th.

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Music Gator donated the movies for Movie at the Library programming.

The Sumter Museum provided resources and staff for SC250 Revolutionary War History Day on June 30th. Additionally, Michael Bowman, the Sumter Museum’s Historic House Manager, presented Unearth the Revolutionary War and provided materials on July 9th.

The Sumter Soil and Water Conservation District manager, Anna Makiewicz, presented What’s In Your Soil? Prehistoric Pee Dee today and provided materials for the salt dough fossil activity on June 15th.

Lowe’s provided Build and Grow project kits for our Lowe's Build and Grow programs on July 6th and 7th.

Chick-fil-A provided additional incentives for the summer reading challenges.

Other Credits

This year’s theme was chosen by the Collaborative Summer Reading Program who commissioned work from the artist, Tom Bonson.