VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – You could win prizes just for reading this summer!
The 2018 Summer Reading Challenge begins on June 11 and ends on August 4 at 5 p.m.
In order to participate sign up for the reading tracking software, Beanstack. The software will even give you reading recommendations!
VBPL also offers two year-round reading programs called the Reading Marathon for adults and 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten for kids, birth to five years old.
Prizes are awarded for each age group, youth, teens and adults and include books, a prize wheel spin, gift cards to Barnes & Noble and entries into raffles for bigger prizes.
Incentives:
- five books = free book
- 10, 20 and 40 books = prize wheel spin
- 50 books = sand animal bean bag toy
Super Reader Badge
- Read for 20 minutes a day, five days every week this summer and unlock an invitation to the Super Reader Celebration at the Virginia Aquarium on Thursday, August 9 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.