Program Description
Event Details
Join Manhattan Public Library’s Summer Reading Challenge and add some color to your world! Record your reading time and complete some fun activities to earn online badges and prizes, from May 31, 2025 - July 31, 2025. You can sign up at any point to join the program.
Sign Up Prize:
Kids' Prizes
Teen & Adult Prizes
- Program dates: May 31 - July 31
- Summer reading is free!
- Who can join? All Ages!
- Earn reading points attained by reading (each minute = 1 point) and by completing activities (see options in the Beanstack app under Activities or Badges).
- How? Download the Beanstack app and create an account, or sign In if you previously registered for MPL's reading challenges.
- Log the time you spend reading or listening to books. Get extra points toward the goal with repeatable activity badges.
- You can read anything, not just library books, and you can listen to books being read aloud to you. Magazines, graphic novels, and audiobooks also count for your reading time.
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Manhattan Library Association, Manhattan Library Foundation,