Category: Reading Challenges

Harry Potter: Read for Your House

Calling all muggles, witches, and wizards! CCPLS is hosting a Harry Potter themed reading challenge from September 1-October 24. The Harry Potter: Read for your House challenge will be completely tracked in the Readsquared website/app. If you need your username and/or password, stop by the Teen Room desk and we can help you. Pick your house and start logging your pages/minutes to earn points for your house. All members of the winning house that log will receive a small prize and will be entered to win a bigger prize drawing.

Don’t know your Hogwarts house? No problem! You can take the Pottermore sorting hat quiz, any other Hogwarts house quiz, or you can just pick a house.

You can read anything, not just Harry Potter literature. Happy Reading!

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Teen Winter Reading!

Join us for our first ever Teen Winter Reading Challenge! Read whatever you want: every 150 pages or 150 minutes you track will earn you a chance to win one of our four awesome prize baskets! Teens are encouraged to signup using the ReadSquared app or stop by the desk to pick up a reading log. Teen can click here to sign up for the challenge. The challenge will run December 23-January 31. We’ll draw our 4 basket winners on February 1!

One of four different prize baskets! Includes: 1 plush throw, 1 ceramic mug with hot chocolate, 1 box of Swiss Miss Cocoa mix and a $30 Gold Bucks certificate!

Banned Books Reading Challenge

Banned Books Week was created in 1982 after there was a sudden rush of challenges of books in schools and libraries. It is normally the last week in September and it is meant to focus on free and open access to all information. Banned Books Week brings together readers of all types.

The Teen Room will be holding the second annual Banned Books Reading Challenge September 1-October 3. Read any banned or challenged book during this time and log it in ReadSquared to earn points. Points earned will earn you an entry to win an awesome free prize! 

Not sure what books have been challenged or banned? Stop by the Teen Room to see our display of books or talk to staff for suggestions. You can also check out the reading lists in ReadSquared. The winner will be announced Monday October 4.

Happy reading and may the odds be ever in your favor!

Sign up here: http://ccplswy.readsquared.com or download the app

Classic Reading Challenge

We are excited to announce a new reading challenge!

Read 12 “classic” books between 7th and 12th grade and you’ll get one of these sweet “Greatest First Lines of Literature” mugs.

How do I know if a book is a “classic” you say?

Here are the criteria it must meet:

  1. It expresses artistic quality.
  2. It stands the test of time.
  3. It has universal appeal.
  4. It is relevant to multiple generations.
  5. There is some consensus regarding its status.

Still not sure? Come down to the teen room and we’ll help you figure it out.

Want book suggestions? No problem. We’ve got lots of those, like The Great Gatsby or To Kill a Mockingbird or The Catcher in the Rye or Frankenstien or The Invisible Man or Farenheit 451 or Slaughterhouse Five…

We could go on and on. Just come on down to the teen room and ask us.

Do any classics you’ve already read count? Absolutely.

To sign up go to http://ccplswy.readsquared.com/. If you have trouble or need help, stop by or call the teen room at 307-687-9227.

Now say it with us…

 

Banned Books Reading Challenge

“We have an obligation to use the language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly, to say what we mean. We must not attempt to freeze language, or to pretend it is a dead thing that must be revered, but we should use it as a living thing, that flows, that borrows words, that allows meanings and pronunciations to change with time.” – Neil Gaiman

Our freedom to read is a great privilege and every year, libraries celebrate that privilege during Banned Books Week, September 27 through October 3 this year.  You can celebrate with us the whole month of September by participating in our Banned Books Reading Challenge via ReadSquared. Sign up by going to www.ccpls.org and clicking on the Teen Banned Books Reading Challenge link under events.

Every banned or challenged book you read during the month of September enters you into a drawing for a prize. Additional activities, called missions, are available in ReadSquared to earn more entries. Attending our Ted&Talk program on Wednesday, September 23 at 1:30pm gets you an entry as well!

Check out this website for list of frequently banned and challenged books: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks. You can also stop by the Banned Books Week display or our desk in the CCPL Teen Room, or call us at 687-9227. We will be happy to pair you up with as many books as you want and answer any other questions you might have.

The prize winner will be announced at our BYOBook discussion on Thursday, October 1 at 4pm.

 

Teen Summer Reading!

Are you participating in our Teen Summer Reading program?!

It’s super easy! Sign up now at http://ccplswy.readsquared.com/. Then all you have to do is read 150 minutes or 150 pages, whatever is easiest for you. You keep track however you want. Each time you read 150 minutes or 150 pages, you earn a take-home prize of your choice. You can win a free book, a drawstring backpack, a water bottle, pizza and so much more! Easy, right?

If you prefer, though, you can stop by the Teen Room for a paper log, and track your reading and prizes that way. In either the online or paper version, you will cross off squares on a bingo card as you read and complete other activities.

Take-home prizes may be collected at the CCPL Teen Room desk, or via curbside delivery, from June 15 through August 24.

A very special thank you to Domino’s Pizza of Gillette, the sponsor of the Teen Summer Reading pizza prize.

But wait, there’s more!!! Anytime you cross off a square on your bingo card, you get a raffle ticket! You can use those tickets to enter for a chance to win one of our SIX prize baskets. Each basket has a different theme: Lazy Saturday; Just Craftin’ Around; Movie Lovers; Baker’s Dozen;                        We  Sweets; and Movie Survival Kit.

Lazy Saturday comes with: a gift card to Dungeons and Dugouts; Arizona Arnold Palmer Lite Tea; Inflatable Flamingo; Water Blasters; Play-Doh; Goofy String; Imagine Your Story Water Bottle; Scented Bubbles; Shark Sunglasses;  and 2 Coconut Cups.

Just Craftin’ Around has a 6×8 drawing pad; 8 piece sketching tin; Arizona green tea; colored pencils; Scented candle; screen cleaner;  comic notebook; pencil sharpeners;  crayons; glitter glue; narwhal eraser; and a Hobby Lobby gift card.

Movie Lovers comes with buttered popcorn; Bugles;  Corn chips; five types of candy and a  gift card to Foothills Movie theater.

Baker’s Dozen comes with a Sweet Cakes gift card; cupcake mix; mug cake treats; measuring cups and spoons; whisk and ladle; screen cleaner; ring phone holder;  and  Gillette Chamber of Commerce Gold Bucks.

We  Sweets comes with an Alla Lala Cupcakes gift card; Ice Cream Café gift card; two Arizona teas; eight types of candy; and pretzel crisps.

Movie Survival Kit comes with a Foothills movie theater gift card; buttered popcorn; five types of candy; BBQ Bugles; corn nuts;  and Arizona raspberry tea

We will have our drawing for the grand prize baskets at our final party Thursday, July 30, 1:30-4 pm; you do NOT have to be present to win!

We can’t wait to see you! Stay safe and keep reading!