Reading Programs

Monday, June 1–Saturday, July 31

Read all summer long with the St. Charles Public Library!  

 

ALL AGES are invited to sign up at the Library, online or print a log to track your reading and listening—it all counts! If you complete your log, print the bonus log here! 

 

Registration opens on Monday, June 1. The last day to log reading and redeem prizes is Friday, July 31. 

 

 

*READsquared is available here or as a downloadable app for iPhone and Android.

 

 

You will earn a prize at the halfway point of 500 minutes and another prize once you’ve read 1,000 minutes! Additionally, for every 500 minutes of reading logged, you automatically earn another entry into the grand prize drawing. 

 

Get the whole family involved for a chance to win the Family Prize Bundle! If you have both a child or teen and an adult participating from the same family, you are automatically eligible to win. The prize bundle includes an assortment of fun activities that tie into this year’s theme, including: a board game, a puzzle, a paint by numbers set, a Lego Botanical set, and a flower starter kit! 

 

Grand Prize and Family Prize winners will be drawn within the week after the program ends. 

 

Youth 

500 Minute Prize: 

Spin the prize wheel at the YS desk! 

 

1000 Minute Prize:  

Choose a book from the Summer Reading cart at the YS desk and receive coupons from local businesses (while supplies last)! 

 

Grand Prizes 

• $50 Target GC   

• “Day in the Park” package. Includes 4 coupons for the following: 

• Aquatic Facility Admissions 

• Rounds of Miniature Golf 

• Hot dogs and drinks 

• Riverboat Cruise Passes 

• Escape Box at the Library 

• STC Creative Program at the Library 

• LEGO Super Mario Piranha Plant Building Set 

• STEM Flower Garden Building Set    

• Portable Sticker Machine 

• Instant Print Camera 

• LEGO DUPLO Town Creative Garden & Flowers Playset

 

 

Young Adult 

500 Minute Prize: 

Choose a YA book from the Summer Reading cart at the upper-level desk. 

 

1000 Minute Prize:  

Choose a YA book from the Summer Reading cart at the upper-level desk. 

 

Grand Prizes 

Plant a Seed and Read Package:   

• The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition 

• Catching Fire: Illustrated Edition 

• Sunrise on the Reaping: Collector’s Edition 

• $50 to Barns & Noble  

 

 Vinyl Listening Party Package:  

• Kiss All the Time and Disco, Occasionally by Harry Styles  

• A Matter of Time by Laufey  

• Victrola Journey Bluetooth Portable Suitcase Record Player 

  

Farm-to-Table Gift Card Package:  

• $25 to Starbucks 

• $25 to Panda Express  

• $25 to Taco Bell  

• $25 to Chipotle 

  

Lego Plant Package:  

• LEGO Botanicals Tiny Plants Building Set 

• LEGO Botanicals Plum Blossom Building Set 

• LEGO Sunflowers Building Set 

 

 

Adult

 

500 Minute Prize: 

Floral resin bookmark.

 

1000 Minute Prize: 

Potted succulent plant.

 

Grand Prizes

 

• Kindle Colorsoft
  

 

• What’s Cookin’? Package
  • Linger Cookbook (by Hetty Lui Mckinnon)
  • Veg-Table Cookbook (by Nik Sharma)
  • Half Baked Harvest Super Simple Cookbook (by Tieghan Gerard)
  • $50 Whole Foods Gift Card

 

• Local Gift Card Package
  • $25 Townhouse Books
  • $25 Heinz Brothers
  • $25 Maple Leaf Roasters Coffee House
  • $25 Smitty’s On the Corner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100 Books 

100 Books Before Graduation is a reading challenge for teens in grades 9 to 12. Read 100 books by the time you graduate from high school and win prizes along the way!

 

 

Create an account in the READsquared app, pick up a paper log from the Research & Reading desk or print one from home. Then track the books you’ve read either on the app or the paper log. After each 25 books read, visit the Library to pick up your prize.

 

 

Keep reading throughout high school to complete the challenge!

 

 

 

 

 

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten

 

Learning to read begins long before kindergarten.  Reading to your child is one of the best ways to boost their brainpower.  Any child from birth to entering kindergarten can participate in this self-paced early literacy program.

 

Come into the Library to sign up and get a paper log.  Check in at the Library when you finish a log and move your canoe up our pretend river.  When you finish 1,000 books, you’ll receive a fun, musical prize!

 

If you read just one book per day, you will reach 1,000 before the child is three years old.  Join us on this journey to help create a brighter future for your child.