🎨 Summer Reading 2025: Color Our World! 📚
Get ready to dive into a vibrant summer of imagination, creativity, and discovery! This year’s Summer Reading Program is a celebration of stories, cultures, and ideas that paint our world in every shade imaginable.
Whether you’re a toddler, teen, or adult, there’s something for everyone in this colorful adventure. Join us as we explore books that inspire, activities that engage, and events that bring our community together.
June 9 – August 9
Get Started
View all your account details in one place and log at your own pace with our online program Beanstack.
Choose to create an individual or family account – whichever works for you!
If you participated in summer or winter reading in the past, you only need to update your existing account!
Forgot your password? No problem! You can reset your password to your registering email address or give us a call at 412-741-6920.
Sign up by June 8 to be eligible to win an early registration prize!
Already signed up? Log in here.
2025 Summer Reading Challenges:
READING TOGETHER
for Babies, Toddlers & Preschoolers
It’s never too early to read to your little ones! Spend time reading together in this program designed for babies, toddlers & preschoolers.
2025 Reading Together Prizes:
- REGISTRATION PRIZE: Medium Squishmallow
- WEEKLY PRIZES: Random prize giveaway
- GRAND PRIZE: Large Squishmallow & $25 Penguin Bookshop gift card
KIDS
for children reading on their own in Kindergarten – entering 5th grade
Encourage your kids to spend some time reading this summer. Not only does it help keep their minds sharp during the lazy-summer days, but they can also earn awesome incentives & win prizes!
2025 Kids Prizes:
- REGISTRATION PRIZE: Medium Squishmallow
- WEEKLY PRIZES: Random prize giveaway
- GRAND PRIZE: Large Squishmallow & $25 Penguin Bookshop gift card
- SPECIAL PRIZE: Most Hours Read – $50 Gift Card
TEENS
for teens entering grades 6-12
We have great programs and incentives just for teens to bust summer boredom!
2025 Teen Prizes:
- REGISTRATION PRIZE: $50 Gift Card
- WEEKLY PRIZES: $25 Gift Card
- GRAND PRIZES:
- COLLECTOR: ONE (1) TEEN who collects all 40 TSR Badges will win a $150 GIFT CARD
- CURATORS: TWO (2) TEENS who collect all 11 TSR Reading and Review Badges will win a $100 GIFT CARD
- CREATORS: THREE (3) TEENS who collect at least 9 TSR Activity Badges will win a $50 GIFT CARD
ADULTS
for ages 18+
You’re already reading…why not earn incentives & win prizes, too?!
2025 Adult Prizes:
- REGISTRATION PRIZE: $25 Gift Card to Clay Cafe
- WEEKLY PRIZES: $50 Gift Card to local business of choice
- GRAND PRIZE: THREE (3) Adults will win $100 Gift Card of choice
More Summer Reading Fun @ SPL
BINGO for Adult & Teens
Back by popular demand is the Summer Reading BINGO game! Step out of your comfort zone when you aim to read through the suggested categories to get a BINGO and win a prize.
Everyone who earns a bingo will get to pick a free book from our prize carts! (More details on BINGO game sheet.) Open to all Adult & Teens. Pick up your BINGO card at the library.
Color Our World Paper Challenge
Reading Together & Kids’ Tech-Free Option
New this year! For our friends wanting a tech-free option for Summer Reading, pick up a Color Our World Paper Challenge in the Children’s Department!
Complete 5 art activities and read 5 books about art, artists, or creativity. Then, turn in your Paper Challenge to the Children’s Department to claim a prize.
At the end of the Summer we will draw a raffle winner from those who have completed the Color Our World Paper Challenge to win a fun art prize! One entry per person, please. While Supplies last.
Snow-Cone Kick-Off Party
Monday, June 9th | 12-2:30pm
Celebrate the beginning of an exciting reading adventure with free snow-cones at our Summer Reading Kick-Off Snow-Cone Party! Perfect for all ages—come chill with us and get ready for a season full of stories, creativity and sunshine! No registration required!
Sewickley StoryWalk
June 13 – July 3
Looking for a fun, family-friendly activity that combines reading with the great outdoors? Join us for the Sewickley StoryWalk® at five area locations!
How to Log Reads
Once you’ve signed up, return to the Beanstack page or use the Beanstack app to log your reads between June 9 – August 9, 2025.
Prize drawings offered weekly. You must log each week to be eligible for that week’s prize.
Even if you’ve won a weekly prize, you are still eligible for the grand prize at the end of the program.
Want to get to the logging page quicker? Bookmark the Beanstack page website: https://sewickleylibrary.beanstack.org
Questions? Try our Summer Reading FAQ or view our video tutorials!
You can download the mobile app, Beanstack, through your app store!
Summer Reading at SPL is generously underwritten by the Friends of the Sewickley Public Library.
