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Summer Reading for Babies, Children, & Teens

Our summer reading challenge starts the day after Memorial Day and ends on the last Wednesday in July. Any age, every age -- you are all welcome to participate.  

Teens can sign up as well as babies and children! Grown-ups can fill out a raffle slip for each teen or adult book they check out for a chance to win weekly prizes!

Sign up at https://forms.gle/kFDZc3FaJDjQoUXz8

  • Count BOOKS if you finish your books in less than an hour.
    Best for picture book readers & listeners who want ALL the beads.
  • Count HOURS if your books take an hour or more to finish.
    Challenging goal for skilled & fluent bookworms. You'll need to read about an hour a day to hit 50 hours before the end!

The Summer Reading Hub opens at the library on the first Monday in June.
Our regular hours: Mon.-Thurs. 10a-8p, Fri.-Sat. 9a-5p, Sun. closed.
 
Print or pick up a Game Sheet to get started. Bring your sheet to the library to check in and win prizes. Anything you've read since Memorial Day 5/27/24 counts. We don't need a list of titles!

  • If your Goal is Read 50 books, then each circle stands for one book.
  • If your Goal is Read 50 hours, then each circle stands for one hour.

Check-In Prizes

  • Sign up: Necklace Kit with its collectible medallion, Culver's frozen custard coin
  • 10 dots: prize slip
  • 20 dots: prize slip, free book
  • 30 dots: prize slip
  • 40 dots: prize slip, coupons
  • 50 dots: prize slip, certificate, name in window, goal tag

Check in at the library by June 15 for a chance to win the Early Bird Prize - a ticket to Kings Island!

  • Basic Beads worth 1/2 dot.
  • Clear Jellies worth 1 dot.
  • Sparkling Jellies worth 2 dots. 
  • Stars worth 4 dots.
  • New this year: Safari Animals worth 8 dots. 
  • New this year: Face beads worth 16 dots. 
  • New this year: Skulls worth 24 dots!

    Earn additional Grand Prize Entries for attending programs and story times.

    If you want to collect MORE BEADS after you finish your first 50 books or hours, then print an Extreme Reading Log and keep going! 

    Finish everything by 8 p.m. on the last Wednesday in July, 7/31/24. Summer Reading ends then.

    • Grand Prize winners will be drawn randomly from the slips in each prize box.
    • Winners for Summer Reading will be drawn on Friday, August 2nd, and notified by 5 p.m. using the phone number or email provided during registration. 
    • Grand Prizes may be picked up at the library during our open hours. Prizes will not be mailed. You must be registered to win.

    Thanks to our 2024 partners, Deerfield Township and the City of Mason, and to the many local businesses and organizations that have sponsored or made donations to our children’s and teen summer reading program: Culver’s of Mason, Kings Island, Kiwanis Club of Mason, Ohio State Fair, Ohio State Parks, Ohio Renaissance Festival, United Dairy Farmers, Pizza Hut, and the Volunteer Friends for the Mason Public Library.

     

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