2024 Summer Reading Rewards
Our summer reading rewards program runs from June 1 ─ August 31, 2024, and *ALL AGES* are encouraged to join!
Registration opens Tuesday, May 28 and continues all summer!
Why do we promote summer reading?
- Reading with infants and toddlers promotes bonding and associates books with positive feelings
- Reading with 3-5 year olds teaches them pre-reading skills (book orientation, letter familiarity, word sounds) which will aid learning to read later on
- For school-age children and teens, summer reading means reading for pleasure, increases vocabulary, and keeps skills fresh for returning to school
- For adults, continued reading reduces stress, maintains memory and brain function, and supports continued learning
- For everyone, reading promotes empathy, creativity, self-esteem, and an understanding of the points of view of other people. It also reduces feelings of loneliness and depression.
Why should you join the Scandinavia Public Library’s summer reading program?
- Being part of a reading program encourages you to set and reach a desired personal reading goal
- You can challenge your friends and family members to see who can read the most!
- You’ll meet other readers and get recommendations for more great books to read!
- You can earn Book Bucks to treat yourself to something fun from one of our community businesses!
- Our community’s combined reading will send our 7-League Boots across the library’s ceiling. We’ll need everyone’s help to get all the way across!
- In joining the reading program, you’ll demonstrate how much reading is valued in our community!
How do I join the library’s summer reading program?
Sign up yourself or your family:
- Using the Beanstack Tracker app available for Apple products and through the GoogleApp Store, ~OR~
- Go to scandinavialibrary.beanstack.org, ~OR~
- Visit the Scandinavia Public Library in person.
- Program registration opens on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, and readers can begin logging their reading on June 1, 2024.
- Program registration will remain open throughout the summer, so even late starters can still enjoy the fun! (If you want to earn a Book Bucks gift certificate [see below], you’ll need to start logging no later than Saturday, August 10, 2024.)
How do I track my reading?
Record each day you read* for at least 20 minutes. (We’re recording the days, not the minutes!) If you read to someone else, or if someone reads to you, count that time for both of you! Record your days using:
- Beanstack on your mobile device or desktop computer, ~OR~
- use paper log sheets. You can pick up log sheets at the Scandinavia Public Library or download the Log Sheet PDF using the purple button below to print them at home.
*Reading includes books (fiction and non-fiction), ebooks, magazines, newspapers, online fiction, audiobooks, and e-audiobooks. Time can be consecutive or broken into smaller segments throughout the day.
Reward yourself for your reading!
We know readers love a nice treat, and we have something fun just for you!
- After logging 22, 44, and 66 days of reading you’ll receive a $3 Book Bucks gift certificate─ that’s up to $9 in Book Bucks that you can earn with your reading over the summer!
- Use Book Bucks on your next purchase at: The Back Forty, Blooming Envy, Country Chic Boutique, Happy Daaze, Odin & Freja’s Place, The Runestick, Salt Hair & Beauty Lounge, ScandiHus, Silver Lake Lanes, Sliced Pizza Co., or Trout Bum Bakery!
- Book Bucks can be used singly or together, and friends and family members can also can combine their Book Bucks in a single transaction!
- Book Bucks can not be redeemed for cash.
- All reading must be logged in Beanstack, or paper reading logs returned to the library, by Tuesday, September 3, 2024 to count towards earning Book Bucks.
- Participating merchants will redeem Book Bucks through Sunday, September 22, 2024. All remaining Book Bucks will be void after September 22, 2024.
- If you don’t want Book Bucks, please let us know (it will save our librarians some time), but keep logging your reading! Logged reading still contributes to moving our 7-League Boots across the ceiling and adds to the fun of our in-library, Hero’s Journey display even if you’re not receiving Book Bucks.
Check out the Hero’s Journey at the library!
We’ve created a heroic adventure across the ceiling in the library. Each of our summer readers will be represented by an adventuring gnome with their name on it. Each day you read will move your gnome farther through the Hero’s Journey!
- Watch your gnome’s progress as you log your reading. Set a summer reading goal─how far can your gnome go?
- Challenge a friend or family member to a reading race! Whose gnome will go the farthest?
- The more readers we have, the more gnomes you’ll see, so encourage your friends and family members to participate too!!
Help us reach our community reading goal!
Our 7-League Boots are a’walkin’ — all the way across the library ceiling! Every day you log will get those boots closer to their goal. Will they get there by the end of the summer? We’ll need all our readers to get them there!
It’s a fun way to work together and show how much our community values reading!