Adult Summer Reading Program
Challenge Yourshelf to read this summer. Register on Beanstack, an electronic reporting software that can be accessed using a mobile device or computer, or at any Lambton County Library location. Between Monday, July 3, 2023 and Sunday, August 13, 2023, log the books you read and participate in activities to earn badges that are used to fill in a BINGO card. Challenge yourself to read something different this summer!
Reading Suggestions
Click on the genres below to discover new books!
Prize Draws
In-Person Prize Draws
Visit your local library and fill out a ballot! You'll receive one ballot each time you visit a Lambton County Library location.
A draw will be held in each of the five regions the library locations are split into. The winners of the in-person draws will receive a $100 Tourism Sarnia-Lambton Gift Certificate.
Patrons who choose to participate through Beanstack are also welcome to submit ballots for the in-person draws.
Beanstack Prize Draws
If you are participating using Beanstack, there will be multiple opportunities to be entered into prize draws for up to three Tourism Sarnia-Lambton Gift Certificates by completing the following tasks:
- Log at least one book in July - Gain one entry to win a $50 Gift Certificate
- Log at least one book in August - Gain one entry to win a $50 Gift Certificate
- Complete a line on your BINGO card - Gain one entry to win a $50 Gift Certificate
- Complete the full BINGO card - Gain two entries to win a $100 Gift Certificate
Beanstack BINGO
The Beanstack BINGO card will consist of 16 badges arranged in a 4x4 square. You can earn a badge and entry into the prize draw when you complete one line. Or, you can complete all challenge badges to fill the entire card for a second entry into the draw.
The sixteen badges will be a combination of book logging and activities badges:
- Six logging badges for each book logged up to the 6th book (one book per week of the challenge)
- Six activity badges for reading the selected genres/categories:
- Book by an Indigenous author
- Book set at sea or on the coast
- Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir
- Book published in 2023
- Beach read
- Book published before 1950
- Four activity badges for local summer activities:
- Visit a local museum or art gallery
- Enjoy a local park, beach, or nature trail
- Do your part to keep garbage out of the oceans by picking up litter from a ditch or a beach
- Upcycle something to keep waste out of a landfill