Ericson Public Library 2025 Summer Reading Program

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Our 2025 Online Summer Reading Program

All ages can decide which option works best for you. Parents if you have a family you want to participate and track, you will want to decide which method you will want to use for your entire family. You won't be able to do the app with one child and log for other.

Our program runs from Monday, June 2 through Saturday, July 26. Our community goal this summer is 500,000 minutes of reading and attendance at programs and completing fun activities! We can do it!

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Week 1 (June 2-June 8) Week 5 (June 30- July 6)

Week 2 (June 9- June 15) Week 6 (July 7- July 13)

Week 3 (June 16-June 22) Week 7 (July 14- July 20)

Week 4 (June 23- June 29) Week 8 (July 21 - July 27)

CHILDREN (INFANT to Grades 4)

Welcome to the Children's Summer Reading program. This program is open to infants through children going into fourth grade in the fall. You will have to choose between the paper option or the Beanstack (app) option. Once registered, each child will receive a free book from the book cart as a special thanks from Friends of Ericson Public Library. The following will provide instructions for each option.

Option #1: Beanstack: If you have not installed the app, you will need to download the app BEANSTACK from your app store. You will use this app to track both minutes read and activity badges. Your child will earn logging badges for every 20 minutes read to or they read on their own.

Option # 2: Paper Option: Register Online and pick up your bookmark at the Children's Department desk. You or your child will color in a circle for each 20 minutes the child is read to or reads. The bookmark back lists activities to complete to be entered into prize drawings. You must turn in your bookmark by Saturday, July 26th to be entered into the prize drawings.

Children will earn the following incentives:

You are welcome to stop in & pick-up all prizes beginning the week of June 9 or throughout the program.

1 Free book from Children’s Department book cart
Hy-Vee donut certificate
Blank Park Zoo pass
Dutch Oven Bakery donut certificate
Tickets for Scenic Valley Railroad ride(for immediate family members only)
Tickets for a I-Cubs game (for immediate family members only). Pick up starting Monday, June 30.
Taco Johns free taco certificate
The Book Shoppe certificate for free book
1 End-of-SRP Luau Pool Party pass. Pick up starting Tuesday, July 1. (Pool Party is Friday, July 25 at 6:15pm)

Children will also earn activity badges for each activity completed. Each activity badge completed will go towards special prize drawings at the end of the program. These prizes include Washable Dress-Up Masks, a Pete the Cat Plush and book, Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party, wooden flower craft kit, an Epic Trolls the Movie Sticker Kit, and an Owls of Iowa poster. Children must have all activity badges completed by Saturday, July 26th to be entered in the special prize drawings.

TWEENS & TEENS (Grades 5-12)

Grades 5th - 12th, based on the grade you will enter in the fall.

LEVEL UP this summer at Ericson Pubic Library! You can earn badges by logging reading minutes and for each 3 hours of reading you log, you will earn tickets which you will enter in the end of program prize drawings. The more tickets you earn, the greater your chances of winning gift cards from Amazon, Walmart, Target & more! You get to choose which drawings to place your tickets into!

The program also includes multiple activity badges like attending programs. All of these badges earn you additional prize tickets.

Use Beanstack or Register Online and pick up a log at the Main floor desk or Children's desk.
Just for signing up you get to pick a FREE book from a designated book selection, and at the beginning of July come on in for a coupon for a FREE Taco from Taco John's!

You can read anything: i.e. books, Ebooks, magazines, newspapers, comics, manga, the internet (or listen to audiobooks) and log those minutes!

ADULTS:

Welcome to the Ericson Public Library 2025 Adult Summer Reading Program, "Level Up at Your Library!" Play is one of the ways we learn to relate to others, to think in new ways, and to foster friendships, new and old. "Level Up at Your Library" is an all-ages summer reading program based around puzzles, games, and "leveling up" your skill set for all sorts of activities - be it learning flower arranging, embroidery, or cake decorating, appreciating new music at an outdoor concert, or just having fun playing Bingo!
"Level Up at Your Library" reminds us that libraries are not just a space for knowledge - they are a space for fun!

Explore Ericson Public Library this summer and all the fun reading has to offer – all while earning badges! Read out of your comfort zone and try new genres of books and sample some of our programs and activities this summer to collect badges to earn prize chances!

Just for registering, you will be eligible to choose one FREE book from a selection at Ericson Public Library and available June 2nd AND be added to these prize drawings:

1. Quad Rail Explorer ticket (for 4 people valued at $160)
2. Iowa Arboretum and Gardens Family Pass (for 4 people worth $40 which includes access to the Children's, Butterfly, and Herb Gardens and Treehouse Village Playground)
3. Adirondack Chair provided by Redekers Furniture

Earn three badges and get a raffle ticket to win a $25 gift card to the business of your choice!
The following 4 prizes are available:

1. $25 Fareway Gift Card
2. $25 HyVee Gift Card
3. $25 Walmart Gift Card
4. $25 Boone Chamber Gift Certificate to any Boone Chamber member business

Keep reading and earning badges for a chance to win a $50 gift card to local and online businesses!
The more you read, the higher your chances of winning a $50 gift card!
You will automatically be placed into drawings for these prizes by earning 4-12 badges:
1. $50 Fareway Gift Card
2. $50 HyVee Gift Card
3. $50 Walmart Gift Card
4. $50 Amazon Gift Card
5. $50 Boone Chamber Gift Certificate to any Boone Chamber member business

HOW TO REGISTER!
There are two options to register depending whether you prefer an online log (via app) or paper log.
Option 1: Download the BeanStack Tracker App to your mobile device or computer to access this Adult Summer Reading Program!

Option 2: Register Online and pick up a paper log in the library!

Be sure to follow and check Ericson Public Library’s Facebook page and website calendar for upcoming virtual, in-person, and hybrid programs and events!

We hope our playing and gaming theme and programs will encourage adults to participate in many local activities at Herman Park Pavilion, Boone Municipal Band, Van Hemert's Dutch Oven Bakery, and also visit Ericson Public Library for the carnival and a wide variety of summer programs! ADULTS, we hope you accept and attempt these challenges and have a wonderful summer of reading and participating at the Ericson Public Library!

Be sure to follow and check Ericson Public Library's Facebook page and website calendar for upcoming in-person, virtual, and hybrid programs and events!
Have questions? Please email Adult Librarian Candy at : cnoelck@boone.lib.ia.us