June 20th - August 20th
Register here and finish logging by August 20th for a chance to win one of 5 Grand Prizes and weekly ice cream giveaways. Kids entering 6th grade in the fall have their choice of completing the Children's or Teen program. Grand prize winners will be notified the week of August 24th. Everyone is encouraged to pick up prizes earned by September 5th. Prizes must be picked up at the Middleborough Public Library.
BINGO sheet (printable or in Beanstack)
Families can use the BINGO sheet to keep track of activities. Kids can follow along in Beanstack as they earn virtual tickets towards grand prize drawings.
Read to Help Others
Read to help support local families in need. No one should be hungry and everyone should have access to locally grown, fresh foods.
The Rotary Club of Middleboro will donate up to $500 to Nourish our Neighbors, a charity that provides local families in need with fresh, farm grown fruits, vegetables, dairy, eggs and more. Every hour you read will help us reach the goal. You have the power to make a positive impact on a local family! Help us to reach our reading goal of 9,000 hours (540,000 minutes) between the children's and teen programs to raise the full donation amount.
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Thank you to the Rotary Club of Middleboro for generously sponsoring our children's and teen reading programs.
Beanstack Tracker Mobile App and Family Accounts make it easier than ever to participate.
Download the app for FREE from your device's app store: 
Android or iOs. Please note that the app does not currently allow you to post picture reviews or upload activity photos - you'll need to do that through the website.
Don't have internet access? Stop in the Children's room to use the Summer Reading computer located at the end of the desk.
What counts as reading? Being read to, reading to someone, reading to yourself, audiobooks, podcasts, magazines, ebooks, graphic novels, and books from home. As long as you are enjoying stories it counts!
Virtual Tickets & Reading Prizes
Register for summer reading and receive a packet of seeds (while supplies last) from Soule Homestead and a FREE book to keep. Earn virtual badges and tickets by reading and completing activities. You get to choose which grand prizes you want to try to win with your virtual tickets. Everyone who reaches 8 hours of reading will get to choose another FREE book and everyone who reaches 16 hours will get to choose a water bottle sticker.
Kids who read and log over 20 hours this summer will be entered into a drawing for a new book of their choice.
Read 30 hours or more to be entered into a special drawing for a $25 Barnes and Noble gift card as well as additional prizes.
Thank you to Soule Homestead for their generosity.
5 Grand Prizes
- $50 Barnes and Noble Gift Card
- Minecraft LEGO set
- Two Passes to Sauchuk Farm
- Games Prize Pack
- Surprise Prize Pack
Once you have chosen the prize(s) you want to try to win, you must add the tickets to the drawings to be entered. You can add and subtract tickets from a drawing at any time up until 11:59 p.m. on August 20. Winners of the Grand Prize Drawing will be notified by the end of the month. One grand prize per participant.
Read for Ice Cream Weekly DrawingsFor nine weeks, we will run weekly drawings awarding a FREE ice cream coupon for Tom and Jimmy's Ice Cream to TWO lucky readers who have logged reading time that week (Sunday-Saturday). If you log your reading time regularly, you'll have more chances to win. One prize per participant.
Thank you to Tom and Jimmy's for their support and generosity.
Want the chance to win an autographed Boston Bruins prize? Kids over 5 years of age who have logged at least 8 hours of summer reading in Beanstack have the chance to win official swag from the Boston Bruins. The only way to win is to join Summer Reading and log the time!
School Summer Reading
Not sure what you're supposed to do for your school's summer reading or need materials? Stop in the Middleborough Public Library or call Amanda Meyer, Children's Librarian, at 508-946-2470.
Questions? Call us at 508-946-2470 or email Children's Librarian Amanda Meyer at ameyer@sailsinc.org.
Plant a Seed, Read is sponsored by the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, iRead, and supported by the generosity of the Rotary Club of Middleboro, the Peirce Trust, the Western Massachusetts Library Advocates, Soule Homestead and Tom and Jimmy's Ice Cream.
