Level Up at Your Library
June 21— August 21
For youth entering grades 6-12
June 21— August 21
For youth entering grades 6-12
Read and complete activities — from summer fun to helping hospitalized children — for the chance to be a winner of one of 5 Grand Prizes!
Incoming 6th graders can participate in either the children's or teen summer reading program.
2025 Teen Summer Reading Flyer and Events (Printer-friendly PDF)
Read to Help Others Level Up
Read to empower hospitalized children through video games as part of our "Level Up" summer reading theme, which is all about fostering empathy, friendship, and learning through play and gaming.
The Rotary Club of Middleboro will donate up to $500 to Gamers Outreach, a charity that provides specialized portable video game kiosks—or GO Karts—to hospitals for children. Every hour you read will help to fund a GO Kart for a Massachusetts hospital. You have the power to make a positive change in a child's life just by reading! 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 $500 towards a GO Kart.
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Video games help to benefit hospitalized children by reducing stress and feelings of lonliness; offering social and emotional support; advancing physical heaing; and providing a sense of normalcy and joy. Thank you to the Rotary Club of Middleboro for generously sponsoring our children's and teen reading programs.
Sign UpRegister anytime between Saturday, June 21 and August 21 using Beanstack, our online reading platform. If you have an account from last year, use that same login. Forgot your username and login? Click on the Sign In button and then "Forget Your Username?" or "Forget Your Password?".
Beanstack Tracker App — You can also download the Beanstack Tracker app for 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.
Pick up your free book!
When you register for the teen program, you're automatically eligible for a free book to help you get reading. Stop in at the Library's Main Floor desk to let us know you've earned your free book, and you can choose a title from our large selection of tween and teen prize books.
Middleborough School students are encouraged to participate in the Library's summer reading program. Need reading suggestions? Find recommendations on our What to Read Next teen page or under the Recommendations tab in your Beanstack account.
Read & Complete Activities
Read what you like—that includes graphic novels, magazines, ebooks, and listening to audiobooks—and log your reading time as you go or in chunks of time. Whenever you reach a reading milestone (8, 10, 12, 20 hours etc.), you'll earn a virtual Logging Badge.
In addition to reading, you can complete mental, physical and creative activities to earn virtual Activity Badges. Activities range from conservation and crafting to outdoor adventure and getting active.
For each badge you earn, you'll also be awarded Virtual Drawing Tickets towards the Grand Prize Drawing. Sometimes completing one badge will unlock another badge, giving you more chances to earn tickets.
Reading Prizes & Drawings
Log 12 hours of reading to officially complete the reading challenge. Continue reading to earn more prizes, entry into drawings, and chances in the Grand Prize Drawing.
8 hours of reading — entry into a drawing for a water-resistant speaker and a $10 Dairy Queen gift
12 hours of reading — 2nd free book and entry into the "Super Reader" $20 Amazon Gift Card Drawing
16 hours of reading — personalized book plate (your name in a library book of your choice), plus entry into
12 hours of reading — 2nd free book and entry into the "Super Reader" $20 Amazon Gift Card Drawing
16 hours of reading — personalized book plate (your name in a library book of your choice), plus entry into
a drawing for a $15 The Game Reserve gift card and a $5 Dairy Queen gift card
20 hours of reading — entry into the "Super-Duper" Reader" $20 Amazon Gift Card Drawing
30 hours of reading — entry into the "Crazy Cool Reader" $20 Amazon Gift Card Drawing
40 hours of reading — entry into a drawing for a themed cotton messenger bag and stainless steel water bottle
40 hours of reading — entry into a drawing for a themed cotton messenger bag and stainless steel water bottle
60 hours of reading — 3rd free book
Thank you to The Game Reserve and Dairy Queen of Middleboro for their generous prize donations.
Grand Prize Drawing
We're raffling off five grand prizes to teen participants who have earned at least one badge. To enter the drawing, be sure to put your virtual tickets into the prize drawings that you are interested in winning. You can add all to one drawing or divide them up however you like!
You can add and subtract tickets from a drawing at any time up until 11:59 p.m. on August 21. Winners of the Grand Prize Drawing will be notified at the end of August. One prize per participant.
Grand Prizes
Amazon Gift Card Pack — $50 Amazon gift card and a $5 Dairy Queen gift card
Target Gift Card Packs— $50 Target gift card and $5 Dairy Queen gift card
Barnes & Noble Gift Card Pack — $50 Barnes & Noble gift card and a $5 Dairy Queen gift card
Dungeons & Dragon Pack — Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook, 2024 ed. and set of D&D dice
Board Game Pack — board game
Thank you to Dairy Queen of Middleboro for its generous prize donations.
Autographed Boston Bruins Puck Drawing
Want the chance to win an autographed puck from the Boston Bruins? Readers who have logged at least 8 hours of summer reading in Beanstack have the chance to win an autographed Jeremey Swayman puck.
Questions? Call us at 508-946-2470 or email Teen Librarian Christine Dargelis at cdargeli@sailsinc.org.
Level Up at Your Library is sponsored by the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, iRead, and supported by the generosity of the Peirce Trust, the Board of Library Trustees, the Rotary Club of Middleboro, Dairy Queen of Middleboro, and The Game Reserve.