Reading challenges

We’re going year-round with our reading challenges! Now you don’t have to wait for our Summer Reading Program to have fun, “level up,” and earn badges and prizes for reading! You can do it all year long through the Beanstack reading platform.

Beanstack allows you to create an account online, add all of your family members who are participating, sign up for appropriate challenges, and log all of your reading through the web or via the Beanstack mobile app.

If you signed up with Beanstack for the 2023 Summer Reading Program, you’re already set up and ready to go. Just sign in to your Beanstack account and select a new challenge.

Current challenges

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten

The concept is simple, the rewards are priceless. Read a book (any book) to your newborn, infant, or toddler. The goal is to have read 1,000 books (yes you can repeat books) to your precious one before they start Kindergarten. 

If you want some help with picking good books to read to your child, check out our “1000 Books” collection located at Larry J. Ringer Library or online and borrow one of our “book backpacks.” There are 10 books in each backpack and we have 100 backpacks to choose from. Once all 100 backpacks are read (in no particular order), the challenge is complete and you’ll get a certificate, five free books at the next Friends of the Library Book Sale, and your picture put up on our “Wall of Fame.”

Read the Classics

Get swept away in the classic tales that helped shape literature as we know it, and discover timeless stories that capture humanity through the ages. Log your reading to earn badges throughout the challenge. Books are counted from the time you register, so you can reread the classics. Ages 14 and up. The challenge starts Jan. 1.

National Poetry Month

Poetry is inspirational and reflects both our innermost feelings and everyday experiences. April is National Poetry Month. Read eight different selected author’s poems out of the 14 and earn a prize while supplies last.