Operation Literacy presents
READ YOUR WAY TO
featuring
StoryCon's
2025 Book List!
PROGRAM DATES:
JULY 1-JANUARY 1
GENERAL INFO
This summer, let your imagination soar! Operation Literacy invites readers to join the "Read Your Way to StoryCon" challenge — a fun and adventurous journey through the pages of 5 exciting books by today’s top middle-grade and young authors on the lead up to StoryCon on Feb 27-28, 2026 in Salt Lake City, UT.
HOW IT WORKS
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Read 5 books on our growing featured author list.
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Log your progress using our printable reading tracker on the backside of this page
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Report that you finished the challenge by clicking the ENTER and submitting your reading list.
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Claim your free badge ribbon and vinyl sticker at StoryCon. *Free ticket drawing winners will be announced by Jan 5th.
THE PRIZE
Complete the reading challenge and win a free StoryCon “Book Expert” badge ribbon and StoryCon vinyl sticker at StoryCon. Plus you’ll be entered to win a free ticket to StoryCon — the ultimate celebration of story!
*10 free tickets will be announced by January 5th. If you win and already have a ticket to StoryCon, you may gift this ticket to a friend.
STORYCON 2025 BOOK LIST
*This growing list will be finalized on August 1
MIDDLE GRADE BOOK LIST
GRADES 3-6
Playmakers by Shelly Brown and Chad Morris
Unraveled Book 9.5 ( or any Keeper of the Lost Cities title) by Shannon Messenger
One Wrong Step by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Cece Rios and the Queen of Brujas by Kaela Rivera
The Legend of the Last Library by Frank Cole
Tools, Not Rules: A Writing Guide for Young Creatives by Celesta Rimington and PJ Gardner
Spark by Chris Baron
The Winter Deception 2: Fault Lines (or Book 1 of the series) by Janet Sumner Johnson
Louder Than Hunger by John Schu
YOUNG ADULT BOOK LIST
GRADES 7-12
Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart
Beasts of War by Ayana Gray
Wizard of Most Wicked Ways by Charlie N. Holmberg
The Darkness Within Us (or book 1 in the series) by Tricia Levenseller
Up in Smoke by Nick Brooks
The Deathly Grimm (or book 1 in the duology) by Kathryn Purdie
Queen Mother by Jeff Wheeler
Sister of Shadow and Light by Sara B. Larson
Badlands by Jo Schaffer Layton
The Spring Maiden by Allison Anderson
Wendy’s Ever After by Julie Wright
The Legend of UH by Aaron Hall