All Together Now Summer Reading Challenge

Summer Reading Challenge

June 22 – August 20

Sign up at https://pawlinglibraryny10.readsquared.com/

or pick up a paper log at the front desk

It takes a community to make change happen and grow amazing readers! Will you join in on the fun and spend time logging your reading minutes to help your team achieve victory and earn our community summer reading prizes, a visit from a free ice cream truck, and a telescope you can borrow?

The All Together Now Summer Reading Challenge will launch June 22th. You can join us and log your family’s reading time online here or with a paper tracking form. Teens and tweens ages 11-18, should use the online program log.

 It’s the kids vs. the teens vs. the adults in a battle for the Best Reader crown. Will the kids be crowned reading rulers yet again? Or will the teens reclaim the crown? Could the adult team finally win the Summer Reading Challenge? Readers of all ages can show off their hard work by earning prizes. All ages earn raffle tickets for gift cards, baseball and soccer tickets, free books to keep, and cameras. 

Kids also earn rare brag badges, temporary tattoos, squishes, and other small prizes to keep them going through the summer.

Use your summer break to help our library grow! Together, if we achieve our community goal of 30,000 minutes read, we’ll earn our community prizes. This year, we’ll receive a Telescope anyone can check out to use at home and a visit from Ice Cream Emergency, the ice cream truck to celebrate! All Summer Reading Program participants will also receive a free sundae from Ice Cream Emergency.

Participating in the summer reading challenge helps students of all ages to fend off the summer slide, the academic backtracking kids often experience due to summer vacation.

PRE-K PROGRAM

This program is designed for kids ages 0 – 5 to encourage life-long reading habits. For each 150 minutes logged reading with a grown up or independently, kids will receive a brag badge showing off their hard work! As they go, kids will also earn prizes like free books, stickers, and toys. Help us read 30,000 minutes this summer and we’ll earn our community prizes, a telescope for anyone to check out and a ice cream party for all participants!

Questions? Contact Reading Program Coordinator, Neena McBaer (children@pawlinglibrary.org; 845-855-3444)

CHILDREN’S PROGRAM

This program is designed for kids ages 6-10 to encourage life-long reading habits. For each 150 minutes logged reading independently, listening to audiobooks, or reading with a grown-up, kids will receive a brag badge showing off their hard work!  Can you collect all of them? Log your time read before 7/15 to earn raffle tickets and you might win tickets to a Hudson Valley Renegades or New York Red Bull game!

Plus, if you keep reading, you never know what other awesome prizes you can earn, like stickers, free books, and toys.

Help us read 30,000 minutes this summer and we’ll earn our community prizes, a telescope for anyone to check out and an ice cream party for all participants!

Questions? Contact Reading Program Coordinator, Neena McBaer (children@pawlinglibrary.org; 845-855-3444)

TEEN PROGRAM

This program is designed for teens age 11 to 17 to encourage life-long reading habits. When you register, you’ll receive a lanyard with a special badge and a free book to get you started. You’ll earn one point for every minute you read. Once you’ve logged your first hour (60 minutes/points) you will be entered into a raffle for tickets to a Renegades Baseball game. There will be free books, raffle tickets and other prizes as you reach more levels. When you have earned 1,200 points you’ll receive a completion certificate you can print and share!

All points will be added to our Community Goal to reach 30,000 minutes of reading! If we reach our goal, participants will be invited to an ice cream party and the Library will earn a telescope that can be checked out and used at home!

Questions? Contact Reading Program Coordinator, Maureen Meltzer-McGrath (teen@pawlinglibrary.org, 845-855-3444)

ADULT PROGRAM

This program is designed for adults age 18 & up to encourage life-long reading habits. Log your time spent reading and earn raffle tickets for a chance to win HV Renegades or NY Red Bull tickets, gift cards around town, or other prizes. Once you’ve earned enough points you’ll receive a completion certificate you can print and share!

All points will be added to our Community Goal to reach 30,000 minutes of reading. If we reach our goal, participants will be invited to an ice cream party and the Library will earn a telescope that can be checked out and used at home!

Questions? Contact Reading Program Coordinator, Donald Partelow (adult@pawlinglibrary.org, 845-855-3444)