Reading Challenges

Adults: Get to know your library in our Library Lovers’ Month Bingo Challenge! Read books and complete different library-related activities to finish your bingo card and earn a chance to win a gift card. This challenge is open to adults and is offered with both an online (Beanstack) and paper bingo card.

Preschool-age children are invited to read 20 books that have earned the prestigious Caldecott Medal award.

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.