Reading Challenges

This year’s Summer Reading Challenge, Level Up at Your Library, is all about gaming and play. We’ll offer programs and books to remind you that libraries are not just a space for knowledge, they are a space for fun! The library is a place where learning gets to be joyful, lessons can be made into games, and puzzles are just another question we can answer. Starting June 2, we invite you to check out some interesting books from the library and read to earn rewards. There is a challenge for readers and listeners of all ages.

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a national initiative that encourages parents to read with their children before kindergarten. Reading to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers helps them develop important skills they’ll need for school. Additionally, it promotes a lifelong love for books and provides a chance for you to bond with your child in a unique way.

Join our reading challenge and begin collecting brag tags. Readers in kindergarten through grade 5 can select and collect tags for every 10 books they read. Fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels—everything counts! Sign up at the Youth & Teen Services Desk to get a reading log and your first tag. Read at your own pace, and when you’ve reached the goal, visit the Youth & Teen Services Desk to choose a tag. Collect as many as you can!

Challenge yourself to read 60 books before high school!

Readers in grades 6–8 can sign up at the Youth & Teen Services Desk to receive a starter pack which includes book tracking sheets. For the first 10 books that you log in a school year, you will receive a small prize. When you have logged a total of 20 books for the school year, you will receive a book to keep. Participants who read 20 books in 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grades will receive a high school survival kit.