2025 Annual Reading Challenge for Kids and Teens
Welcome to the 2025 Redeemed Reader Reading Challenge!
Here's to a great year of reading for you and your children and students!
This "Hub" has a total of 15 reading challenges! The original 100-book grand slam challenge has been broken up into 10 mini-challenges, each with 10 book categories. Print just the mini-challenge that interests you/your family, try to read accomplish more than one, or go for all of them! Each mini-challenge includes both Christian and secular options as well as fiction and nonfiction (except for the Imaginative Literature challenge, which is all fiction).
Our new challenges include a free choice challenge (with corresponding children's and teen trackers) and four challenges for grownups (parents and educators). These are below the main challenges.
We know many of you are printing these for your classrooms and families, so we made the challenges very printer-friendly. The only difference between the kids' and teens' versions is aesthetics: each book category is the same and will work for all ages. You are free to choose whichever appeals most to the reader working on the challenge.
FELLOWSHIP MEMBERS
You may download these throughout the year, as many times as you like. You can find a direct link on your account page as well.
NEW IN 2024: A Reading Challenge Forum! Fellowship members have free access to this forum. We encourage you to use it for accomplishments, questions, sharing favorite books, and more.
NOT A MEMBER?
These challenges are free for you to use through the end of January, 2025. At that time, the challenge will be locked down to member-only use. Please download what you need before then. Interested in joining the Redeemed Reader fellowship for year-long access as well as other resources? We have a two-week free trial included in our Silver Key level. Find out more about membership here.
GENERAL DOWNLOADS
KIDS' READING CHALLENGE RESOURCES
TEENS' READING CHALLENGE RESOURCES
KIDS' CHOICE READING CHALLENGE RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE READING CHALLENGES
Each of these challenges will work as a mini-course in children's literature: important works historically, exposure to the main awards, key authors and illustrators, and more.
Which to choose? The Picture Book Challenges have more to read, but the books are short! The original versions of both Picture Book and Children's Novels include the more traditionally recognized authors in the field; the newer versions swap out individual author/illustrator names for newer/more diverse selections. Each version, old and new, contains the same options for awards and other general categories.
