Pizza Hut’s Summer 2026 Book It program opened for enrollment on May 1st and will officially kick off June 1st.

• The much-beloved reading challenge rewards pre-K through 6th-grade readers with personal pan pizzas for reaching their parent-set reading goals.
• Kids can earn one pizza per month for June, July, and August if they meet their reading goals for 15 days of each of those months, with the goal ranging from 20 minutes to 50 minutes per day, depending on what the parents have decided.

Setting goals, marking them complete, and redeeming the reward certificates all happen through the Book It App, and parents can manage multiple children under their account. (Note that the number of free pizzas per household is capped at five per month.)

Begun in 1984 (right when this writer was in prime summer reading challenge years), the Book It program reaches more than 14 million children per year. The program also provides some supporting materials, including printable goal trackers and discussion questions, on its resource pages.