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The Dirt: June 2025

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☀️ Brat summer is over, but reading is never out: Worm Scout Summer Camp Reading Challenge is here! 🏖️
Set a goal, let your TBR cook, and earn an adorable new seasonal outfit for your wormy. It’s time to tackle that reading stack in your room! 📚✨ Join from your Library page in the mobile app!


Books, dragons, and kitties with
Welcome to the completely very first interview in our Wormie Spotlight series!
Each month, we hope to chat with a wormie just like you. Bookworm is all about community, and it’s high time we get to know our neighbors. We want to learn more about your reading habits, favorite books, and the odd, beautiful things that make you you.
First up is a wormie who loves dragons, mindfulness (with a twist), and the coziest reading sessions with her cat, Luna. Meet Maxine Zhao.
How did you find out about Bookworm?
My VERY COOL coworker Alice told me about her VERY COOL friend Amelia (THE bookworm creator) and her VERY COOL app, Bookworm. I reacted in a chill, nonchalant way, of course. (Just kidding. I was anything but chill!) I’m still super chalant about the app and have been known to force people to sign up if they say a word that rhymes with “roodgeads.”
✨ What’s new in the app
Here’s what we’ve been working on lately (and what’s just around the corner):
🎯 Summer Reading Challenge – Join the Worm Scout Summer Camp and earn a new outfit
🌐 Add your Bluesky handle – You can now add your Bluesky link to your profile!
📖 A new book page redesign – It’s almost here and looking cute as heck!! Stay tuned!!

Check them out in the mobile app and let us know what you think 🙂
Happy reading,
Team Worm 🐛🥰