Get ready for a summer filled with adventure and rewards with our 2024 Summer Reading Challenge!
Whether you're a child, teen or adult, there's something exciting waiting for you!
Adult Prizes Teen Prizes Children's Prizes
When: June 1 - Aug. 3, 2024
How to join: Sign up is easy! Visit Beanstack or stop by the library. You can also download and print your reading tracker at home.
Please note: The program is free. You don't need a library card to join, but you can easily sign up for one.
Read anything you want, including graphic novels and audiobooks, and it will count toward your goal!
Questions? Call (920) 236-5208 for more information.
Printables
2000 min.
Teen Reading Tracker
Adult Reading Tracker
We appreciate our 2024 Summer Reading Challenge sponsors!
Summer Reading is made possible with support from the Donald Hansen Fund of the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation.
Zoomobile and CLIMB Theater are made possible with support from Winnebago Community Credit Union.
Thank you to the Oshkosh Herald for providing funds to purchase prize books for children.
Are you or your organization interested in supporting literacy and learning at the library?
For information about sponsorship opportunities, please email Lisa Sumter Voss at voss@oshkoshpubliclibrary.org
Children
Babies - Grade 5
Goal: 500 minutes or more
Track your reading
Rewards
Track your reading progress and earn cool rewards like a necklace with an assortment of beads and brag tags; and free books.
In addition, read for 20 minutes and earn a Pollock Community Water Park Day Pass for Youth ages 3 - 17 (while supplies last)!
Teens
Grades 6 – 12
Earn points by reading and completing fun activities. Rack up points to earn awesome rewards like gift cards, snacks and books!
Track your reading
50 Points
Entry in a drawing for $50 Visa gift card & OPL Bookstore item (valued at $2 or less).
100 Points
Teen Pick-Your-Prize
(stickers, snacks, pens, etc.)
150 Points
New book
200 Points
Pollock Community Water Park One Day Pass for Youth ages 3 - 17 years old.
250 Points
New book
300 Points
Teen Premium Pick-Your-Prize
(autographed books, book lights, games, etc.)
Gift card winner will be contacted by Aug. 9, 2024.
Prizes must be picked up at the library by Aug. 31, 2024.
Adults
Ages 18 and older
Goal: Set a goal of 1,000 minutes or more. From bookstore items to raffle tickets for grand prize drawings, there's plenty to keep you motivated all summer long.
- Earn one library bookstore item ($2 or less) for your first 200 minutes tracked in Beanstack or on your paper tracker.
- Earn raffle tickets for every 200 minutes logged on Beanstack or submitted using the paper trackers, even after you’ve completed the 1,000 minutes.
- Earn library bookstore items ($2 or less) for completing the Read Broader Badge and/or the Library Power User Badge.
Track your reading
Grand Prizes
Every badge you earn enters you into one of six Grand Prize Drawings, each valued at $100 or more!
- Pick 'n Save ($100 Gift Card)
- Caffeine & Books ($50 Planet Perk Gift Card & $50 Caramel Crisp Corner Gift Card)
- Tunes & Tats ($25 Eroding Winds Gift Card & $75 Oshkosh Tattoo Gift Card)
- Oshkosh Public Museum Family Membership
- The Paine Family Membership
- Movies (Marcus Theaters & Time Community Theater Gift Certificates)
Prize winners will be contacted by Mon., Aug. 5.
