Friday, June 3, 2022

Express Yourself - The LAPL Summer Reading Challenge


This year’s Summer Reading Challenge runs from June 6 through August 6 and invites you to express yourself… Use your voice in your own way.  

  • You can sign up for the program online or by visiting your branch.  
  • Collect your participation prizes from your branch.  
  • You will earn reading badges for reading and for completing fun, learning based activities.  
  • Reading for 1 hour = 1 badge. 
  • Completing an activity = 1 badge.  
  • Earning 15 badges gets you entered in the branch and grand prize drawings

Sign yourself up with a visit here (https://lapl.beanstack.org/). Download the app here (https://www.lapl.org/summer/tracker-app)

You will enroll in the challenge in one of 4 different age based categories each with cool participation prizes… The groups (& prizes) are
  • Early Learners - board book, coloring bag + crayons
  • Children - Badge Book, reading book, coloring bag + crayons
  • Teens - journal + pen, reading book, coloring bag + crayons
  • Adults - journal + pen, canvas tote, Hidden Heroes coloring book
At the end of the challenge, anyone whose Beanstack account has been marked complete will be entered into a Branch Prize drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift card.  In addition...

Challenge completers will be entered in our Ticket Drawings.  Ticket Drawings are new this year.  Anyone who completes the challenge will earn 15 tickets (one for each badge) that they can use to enter the grand prize drawings.  The three grand prizes are a Museum or L.A. Zoo membership, an iPad, or a very cool skateboard with graphics by Man One.  You can distribute the tickets any way you want!