Reading Challenges

Summer Reading 2025: Level Up!

June 21st – August 16th

This summer, we’re bringing beads back! Earn a bead for every 15 minutes of reading. Color in a block on our tracking sheet for every 15 minutes and earn one bead for every block. Pick up a special bead for every six blocks.

For an extra challenge (and an extra prize), work your way through our summer reading dungeon, RPG-style! Take on every obstacle to collect an item from our treasure hoard.

Also visit the library for a new candy estimate raffle each week!

🡇 How do I start?

Stop by the children’s room to sign up for the challenge and to pick up a tracking sheet and a necklace. Then read, read, read! Bring your sheet back to the library to pick up your beads.

🡇 Who can participate?

Anybody! No age limits here. Both independent reading and being read to count toward your minutes read.

🡇 What counts as reading?

Fiction, non-fiction, audiobooks, read-togethers, graphic novels, you name it! You can read by yourself or out loud to another person. You can listen to an audio book or listen to someone else read to you. If it has words and no moving pictures, it probably applies!

🡇 What if I lose my sheet/map/necklace?

Click the links for a printable tracking sheet or a printable dungeon map, or stop by the children’s room to grab new materials. If you have not yet registered, please visit the children’s desk to sign up for the challenge!