We’re going year-round with our reading challenges! Now you don’t have to wait for our Summer Reading Program to have fun, “level up,” and earn badges and prizes for reading! You can do it all year long through the Beanstack reading platform.
Beanstack allows you to create an account online, add all of your family members who are participating, sign up for appropriate challenges, and log all of your reading through the web or via the Beanstack mobile app.
If you signed up with Beanstack for the 2023 Summer Reading Program, you’re already set up and ready to go. Just sign in to your Beanstack account and select a new challenge.
Upcoming challenges
Black History Month Bingo!
Every February we pay tribute to generations of African Americans by celebrating Black History Month. Join us this February by logging your reading, going to featured events, earning themed badges and make a Bingo!
Make a Bingo by February 28th and your name will go into our drawing. Three winners will be chosen for a gift card to one of our black-owned local restaurants: Lamar & Niki’s, Remnants of Nawlins and Shannon’s Cafe!
- Dates: Feb. 1-28, 2025
Current challenges
Winter Reading Challenge 2025: Be a Reading Machine
Ready, set, READ! We encourage readers of all ages to challenge themselves to become reading machines this winter. From Jan. 1-31, the Bryan + College Station Public Library System is participating in “Be a Reading Machine,” a reading challenge sponsored by Beanstack and Baker & Taylor.
We challenge our community to read and log at least 300 minutes during the challenge. For logging your minutes read, you will earn fun, new badges. The top-performing libraries and schools will even win special prizes.
Make sure you log all your reading by Jan. 31 to be eligible for a completion prize. Completion prizes are available while supplies last until Feb. 15.
- Dates: Jan. 1-31, 2025
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
The concept is simple, the rewards are priceless. Read a book (any book) to your newborn, infant, or toddler. The goal is to have read 1,000 books (yes you can repeat books) to your precious one before they start Kindergarten.
If you want some help with picking good books to read to your child, check out our “1000 Books” collection located at Larry J. Ringer Library or online and borrow one of our “book backpacks.” There are 10 books in each backpack and we have 100 backpacks to choose from. Once all 100 backpacks are read (in no particular order), the challenge is complete and you’ll get a certificate, five free books at the next Friends of the Library Book Sale, and your picture put up on our “Wall of Fame.”
- Dates: Ongoing
Read the Classics
Get swept away in the classic tales that helped shape literature as we know it, and discover timeless stories that capture humanity through the ages. Log your reading to earn badges throughout the challenge. Books are counted from the time you register, so you can reread the classics. Ages 14 and up. The challenge starts Jan. 1.
- Dates: Ongoing
