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Reading Challenges


Want to win free books and other prizes? Sign up for one of our Reading Challenges!

You can sign up online or at the library. The Beanstack app*  makes it easy to track your reading. Have you already participated in a reading challenge? No need to sign up again. Just log into your Beanstack account and select a new challenge.

Sign up!

*Find the Beanstack Tracker app in the App Store or Google Play.


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Rocket Readers!
Spring Reading Challenge

January 1–April 30, 2024

Sign up  starts January 1  for the Spring Reading Challenge for Kids and Teens. Track your reading and win prize books!  For infants through Grade 12 students.

Download a printable pdf:
Kids’ reading log »
Teens’ reading log »

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1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Start this challenge anytime!

Sign up for the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Reading Challenge and enjoy reading 1000 books with your little one!

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HOW IT WORKS
Read 1000 books with your child from birth to age 5.
• Log each book, or you can scan the book’s ISBN code.
• If you read a few books at a time, you can enter those at once.
• For every 100 books you log, you’ll earn a badge on Beanstack and a prize sticker to pick up at your next library visit.
• When you finish 1000 books, come back with your child to choose a free book!

Repeat readings of books are counted.

Happy Reading!

Looking for reading ideas? Ask us.
Check out our Early Childhood Resources.

The 1000 Books Foundation is a national organization dedicated to promoting reading to newborns, infants, and toddlers and encouraging parent and child bonding through reading.

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Book Bundles

Tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll put together a Book Bundle for your young reader! Get started »


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