Bentonville, AR... Bentonville Public Library announces the BPL Summer Reading Club 2024 - Adventure Begins at Your Library.
Every year BPL partners with the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) to support literacy, education, and science for readers of all ages and backgrounds. Though most BPL events are on hold until the expansion is complete this fall, BPL is happy to announce the Summer Reading Club is going strong.
All departments (Kids, Teens, and Adults) will have weekly drawings, prizes associated with challenges, and opportunities to be entered for the grand prize as follows:
- Children’s Summer Reading Club Grand Prize- $150 Visa gift card
- Teen’s Summer Reading Club Grand Prize- Personal Library Starter Kit, which includes 10 books of their choosing from the prize book vault and a personal library kit, complete with checkout cards, bookplates, date stamp, and ink pad
- Adult Summer Reading Club Grand Prize (6 to be awarded)- Kindle Fire HD 10 in.
Key dates for the BPL Summer Reading Club are as follows:
- Monday, May 13 - Pre-registration begins! Avoid long registration lines by signing up from home.
- Monday, June 3rd - Summer Reading begins! Start reading and logging your minutes.
- Monday, July 15 - First day for Children and Teens to pick up prize books!
- Wednesday, July 31 - Last day to log reading
- Thursday, August 1 - Grand prize drawings
This year patrons can preregister on the Beantack website or on the Beanstack app. You must register through Beanstack to be eligible for prizes! When the library reopens on June 3 (see details of closure here), children and teen readers can pick up manual trackers.
The BPL Summer Reading Club is made possible by Friends of the Bentonville Library, Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP), other generous donations, and the Arkansas State Library with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Visit our Summer Reading Club page for more details.