Welcome to Camp Kindess Summer Reading Program! We have a fun summer packed with reading and activities just for you. Come to the the library for a welcome packet with everything you need to know to participate. Starting June 1, you can go online and sign up in Beanstack and start counting the minutes you read on June 17th.

Check out the information below to see all of the events we have planned from June 11th to July 31st!

Scholastic Book Fair

June 3rd to 9th

Announcing our Summer Reading Book Fair Theme: “Happy Camper Book Fair: S’more Fun with Books!” Welcome your child to an amazing world of reading, where kids can learn about animals and the great outdoors while discovering great books that will get them hooked on reading.

Camp Kindness

June 17 to August 5

For youth entering grades K through 4.

Read and complete fun activities for the chance to be the winner or one of our Grand Prizes! Incoming Kindergartners can participate in either the children’s or preschool program.

2023 K- 4 Summer Reading Flyer

Sign Up for Summer Reading

Register anytime between June 1st and August 4th using Beanstack, our online reading platform. Once you’ve created an account, you’re ready to start logging your reading time and completing activities.

Registration Prizes – A Free Book!

When you register for the program, you’re automatically eligible for a free book to help you get reading. Stop in at the Library’s Circulation Desk to let us know you’ve earned your free book, and you can choose a title from our large selection of book prizes.

Beanstack Tracker App — You can also download the Beanstack Tracker app for Android or iOs.

Read For a Chance to Win

Read what you like—that includes graphic novels, magazines, ebooks, and listening to audiobooks—and log your reading time as you go or in chunks of time. Whenever you reach a reading milestone (2,5, 10 hours etc.), you’ll earn a virtual Logging Badge.

Virtual Tickets

For each badge you earn, you’ll also be awarded virtual tickets towards the Grand Prize Raffle. The more you read, the more you earn.

2-Hour Drawing for a Squishmallow

Complete 2 hours of reading to earn 1 chance towards winning a pair of an adorable Squishmallow. One winner will be chosen at the end of the program.

Don’t stop reading! You can continue logging your time to earn more prizes and more chances towards the Grand Prize Raffle.

5-Hour Personalized Bookplate

Have your name in a library book! Complete 5 hours of reading to receive a personalized bookplate placed in a library book of your choosing. The bookplate will have your name on it in recognition of your reading achievement. Visit the library to select your book (it can’t already have a bookplate) and we’ll add the bookplate.

10-Hour Walmart Gift Card Raffle

Hey super readers, log 10 or more hours by the end of the program to be automatically entered into this special raffle for a $25 Walmart gift card. This raffle is separate from the Grand Prize Raffle.

Reading & Beyond — Activities

Kayla Miller Teen Badges

Looking for other ways to earn tickets and get ahead of the competition? Complete themed activities to earn Activity Badges. Activities range from painting, crafting, and reading.

You can earn 5 tickets for completing a badge.

“Read for Ice Cream” Weekly Drawings

For seven weeks, we’ll run weekly drawings awarding $5 in Dairy Queen coupons to a reader who has logged reading time that week (Sunday-Saturday). If you log your reading time regularly, you’ll have more chances to win. One prize per participant.

Teen Grand Prizes

Grand Prize Raffle

We’re raffling off grand prizes to participants who have earned at least one badge. To enter the raffle, be sure to put your virtual tickets into the prize drawings that you are interested in winning. You can add all to one drawing or divide them up however you like!

You can add and subtract tickets from a drawing at any time up until 11:59 p.m. on August 12. Winners of the Grand Prize Raffle will be notified in August. One prize per participant.

Questions? Call us at 724-226-3491 or email Youth Librarian Susan Wilson at [email protected].

Summer Reading – Grades K to 4