Bookworm 2026

June 1, 2025 - July 22, 2025 at 12 noon

Preregistration begins Monday, May 18

This summer, we’re encouraging everyone to read daily and complete exciting activities. Set your own reading goal, choose your activities, and earn awesome prizes—including a free book at the halfway point and another when you complete the summer challenge!

Track your progress with our Bookworm Reading Tracker and Beanstack as you complete daily reading goals and/or activities.

How to participate

Bookworm is for all ages!

For each reader, you'll pick one Bookworm Challenge:

Read to Me: Birth to starting Kindergarten
Independent Readers: Grades K-6
Teens: Grades 7-12
Adults: Anyone age 18 and up

How to Complete the Challenge

Pick your daily reading goal: You decide how many minutes you want to read every day. Don't worry, you can always fill in other activities if there's a day you don't feel like reading.
Track your progress: Every day that you either reach your reading goal or complete an activity, write that date in one of the circles on the Bookworm Tracker.
Log in Beanstack: Record your progress online; staff and VolunTeens can help!
Earn rewards: Get a free tote bag on your first day of Bookworm, and a reward or a coupon after you complete 10, 15, 20, and 30 activities.

Logging

You can track your progress with the Bookworm Reading Tracker, but be sure to log it on Beanstack, too—that’s how you earn prizes! Need help? Stop by any library location, and we’ll be happy to assist you.

You will be able to log your reading and activities starting Monday, June 1, 2026, and all logging must be complete by 12 noon on Wednesday, July 22, 2026.

Using Beanstack

If you participated in Bookworm last year and have a Beanstack account, you can sign in using your username and password from before. If not, you can sign up for a new account.

You can create either an individual or family account on Beanstack. A family account lets you log things for your whole family without having to log into individual accounts.

Sign into your Beanstack account, and click the red button that says "Log Activities." You will not see this button until June 1, when Bookworm officially starts.

Activities

If you don't feel like reading on a given day, do one of these activities instead!

Play outside or visit a park
Play a game or put together a puzzle
Visit the library or eLibrary
Recommend a book or movie to a friend
Go on a color walk (look for things of one color as you walk)
Tell a friend about Bookworm!
Attend a library program
Draw a picture
Try a new recipe
Listen to music you've never heard before
Do something nice for someone
Write a thank-you note to someone you appreciate
Put on some music and dance
Take a picture with your favorite book or movie

Rewards

1 activity logged: Free tote bag
10 activities logged: Coupon prize
15 activities logged: Free book and Grand Prize drawing entry ticket
20 activities logged: Coupon prize
30 activities logged: Free book and Grand Prize drawing entry ticket

Grand Prizes

For the Grand Prize drawings, we will have different prizes and you can choose which prize drawings to enter in the Beanstack app. Just enter as many tickets as you would like in the prize of your choosing.

Patrons using Beanstack must have a phone number on their Beanstack account in order to receive the Grand Prize.

You must visit the library to pick up your prizes. Prizes cannot be mailed. Trophies and Grand Prizes will be awarded at the Bookworm Finale Party. To qualify for prizes, readers must be Ohio residents.

These are the prize options for each age group:

Read to Me:

Dino My Room: Dinosaur projector, glow-in-the-dark sheets, and a dinosaur chair!
Light Table Set: Light table, transparent letter and shapes, and a bubble machine!
STEAM Fun: Duplo Lego Set, musical toys, and mix/match animal toys!

Independent Reader:

Book Making Kit: With art set and LED design board!
3-D Pen Set: With extra filament and case!
Dino My Room: 3-D hologram dinosaur, dino tent, dino projector, and a dino Lego set!

Teens:

Light Up Art Set: Light table for tracing and art supplies!
Mindful Activity Set: Wobble crochet kit, Buddah Board, squishy fidgets, and a Bluetooth white noise sound machine with alarm clock!
Home Planetarium: With slides of real space images!

Adults:

Kobo eReader: With protective case!
Porch Goose: Lightweight indoor/outdoor porch goose with dinosaur outfit and CRCPL t-shirts so that the adult and goose can match!
Espresso Machine: Set with grounds, frothing pitcher and thermometer, and a library coffee mug!

Programs & Activities

Dig Into Reading and fun summer activities during this year's Bookworm program!

Check out our Calendar of Events to find out what's happening at a branch near you.

Important Dates:

Monday June 1, 2026: Bookworm starts!
Wednesday June 3, 2026: Bookworm Kick-Off at Northside Branch at 5pm
Friday June 5, 2026: Adult Bookworm Kick-Off: Throwback Book Fair! at Main Library at 6:30pm
Friday June 26, 2026: Library-Sponsored Free Pool Day at the Municipal Pool
Wednesday July 22, 2026 at noon: Bookworm ends and all logging must be complete!
Wednesday July 22, 2026 at 6pm: Bookworm Finale Party in Yoctangee Park (pool party starts at 7:30pm)

Bookworm Book Recommendations

Find books to fulfill your Bookworm Reading Challenge in the library’s online catalog, or dive into eBooks and audiobooks from hoopla and the Ohio Digital Library. If you need a library card, you can register for one online.

If you're looking for something good to read, check out these staff-curated book recommendation lists for all ages.