You will earn prizes and coupons to local restaurants for doing something many already do: reading. All high school students will get a free book for completing the winter reading program.

Public libraries report all these statistics to the state government, which affects our funding. The more program sign-ups we have, the better!

What counts as reading?

The Teen reading program counts the hours that you read. You only need to read 5 hours this winter to complete the program. You can keep reading up to 10 hours for additional grand prize drawing entries.

This way it is a little more fair with the people taking their time reading Dune and the people whipping through ALL the manga books. You are free to choose whichever materials you would like to read. Any of this counts:

• Traditional print books you can hold in your hands
• eBooks on a Kindle, Chromebook, phone
• Comic books, also known as graphic novels
• Audiobooks
• Articles (newspapers, magazines)