2025 Summer Reading
June 1–August 1
1. Sign up for the challenge
Visit the Henrico Library Beanstack page to sign up your whole family online. Adults with "pre-reader" children (who are not yet reading on their own) can also sign up their little ones to track their time spent reading together. See below for more about Beanstack.
Then visit your favorite Henrico library to pick up your starting prizes—a reading log, a bookmark, and a pencil—and get started on logging all your reading progress this summer!
Follow us on social media for more activities and fun as the summer goes on.
2. Log your reading and reviews
Your challenge this summer is to read for 1,000 minutes by August 1, to earn a ticket to our Grand Prize drawing.
When you do any reading at all—whether a lot or a little—track how many minutes you read in Beanstack. It adds up fast! If you read 20 minutes each day, you can finish in 50 days. If you read more per day, you can finish sooner … and if you read for more than 1,000 minutes, you can earn more tickets to win a Grand Prize.
As a bonus, if you write reviews of 5 books and submit them in Beanstack, you'll earn one more ticket for the Grand Prize drawing!
Aim for these goals:
| Goal | Prize |
|---|---|
500 minutes | Midpoint Prize |
1,000 minutes | Finisher Prize + Grand Prize Drawing Ticket |
1,500 / 2,000 / 2,500 minutes | Additional Grand Prize Drawing Tickets |
Review 5 books on Beanstack | Bonus Grand Prize Drawing Ticket |
3. Collect your prizes and enter drawings
As you reach your goals, come in to the library to pick up your prizes. Midpoint and Finisher prizes will be available starting July 1:
| Age Group | Midpoint Prize | Finisher Prize |
|---|---|---|
Pre-Readers | 5-Color Fun Crayon | |
Kids | Colored Pencil Set | |
Teens | Clip-on Ring Light | |
Adults | Collectible Coffee Mug |
Grand Prizes
Be sure to have all your reading and reviews entered in Beanstack by Friday, August 1 to qualify for the Grand Prize Drawings! Winners will be announced Wednesday, August 6. The more you have read, the more chances you'll have to win one of these great prizes:Kid & Teen Grand Prizes
3D Printer
(10.9-inch) Wi-Fi 64GB with Apple Pencil
Adult Grand Prize
Crafting Machine
Pre-reader Grand Prize
Magnetic Building Tiles with Light Table
Branch Prizes
Branch Prize Drawings can be entered in person at any Henrico library. You can win one of these prizes:Kid Branch Prize
Vibrant Creative Brick Box
Teen Branch Prize
Mini Instant Film Camera
Adult Branch Prize
$50 Gift Card
Pre-reader Branch Prize
Deluxe Brick Box
We're doing all kinds of fun things this summer! Follow us on social media or visit the information desk at your favorite Henrico library to find out what's going on.
We hope you to see you there!
Sign up with Beanstack
Beanstack is a free website and app that Henrico Library uses to offer reading challenges like Summer Reading. Once you start an account for yourself and the other readers in your family, you can log all of your reading and reviews in one place. You can join challenges in Beanstack, and as you reach challenge goals, you'll earn prizes ranging from virtual badges to entries in our Grand Prize drawings!
Visit the Henrico Library Beanstack page or download the Beanstack Tracker app from your app store to get ready. Note that only books and reviews logged from June 1–August 1 will count toward the Summer Reading challenge.
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