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Reading Challenges

Summer Challenge 2024

Summer Challenge: Explore — Discover — Renew

June 1 – July 31
Ages 0-100+. North Aurora, take the summer challenge to read and participate in fun activities! Everyone is invited to join the fun and earn prizes with challenges for every age.

Babies, kids, and teens can pick up reading and bingo trackers at the library and log reading/activities online at messengerpl.beanstack.org or via the Beanstack Tracker app.

Adults can pick up a log at the Help Desk or enter online.

Stop by the library all summer to enjoy trivia, scavenger hunts, guessing games, the Literacy Investigation Station, special prize drawings, and more!

Year-Round Challenges

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Encourage a lifelong love of books and learning while bonding with your little ones. Messenger’s reading challenges for children help build strong and positive habits through reading together. Visit the youth desk or messengerpl.beanstack.org to get started.

500 Books Before Middle School

Elementary students can keep reading to earn badges and free books! Visit the youth desk or messengerpl.beanstack.org to get started.

100 Books Before Graduation

Read 100 book before graduating high school. Earn a free book for every 10 books that you read! Visit the youth desk or messengerpl.beanstack.org to get started.

School-Year Challenges

Illinois Children’s and Teen Choice Awards

Monarch Award (Kindergarten – Grade 3)
Bluestem Award (Grades 3-5)
Caudill Award (Grades 4-8)
Abe Lincoln Award (Grades 9-12)

Read this year’s nominees and earn free books! Visit the youth desk or messengerpl.beanstack.org to get started.

Messenger Public Library of North Aurora

Install Messenger Public Library of North Aurora

Install this application on your home screen for quick and easy access when you’re on the go.

Just tap then “Add to Home Screen”