Photograph Credit: Half Price Books
Highlighting 14 summer reading programs in these two weeks, I hope you will find multiple ways to keep your reader learning and exploring this summer. These programs encourage life-long learners with rewards for meeting a goal.
Our summer reading series: Barnes & Noble Imagination’s Destination, Chuck E. Cheese, and Half Price Books Feed the Brain.
Half Price Books Feed the Brain
Photograph Credit: Half Price Books
Participants
Children ages 14 and younger.
Program Length
- The June logs are due by Sunday, July 7, 2013.
- The July logs are due by Sunday, August 11, 2013.
Goal
Read every day for at least 15 minutes totaling a minimum of 300 minutes per month.
Requirements
Work on your summer reading and record the number of minutes read each day on your reading log. Add up your minutes and have a parent initial each weekly total.
Redemption
Take the finished reading log to a participating Half Price Books store.
Reward
Qualifying participants who read 300 or more minutes each month in June and July can submit their reading log for $5 in HPB Bookworm Bucks. The coupon is valid through August 28, 2013 to apply to a pre-tax amount on your next visit’s transaction.
Multiple eligible family members may participate, and minutes parents read to their children count in the total minutes read.
One top reader award of a $20 gift certificate will be chosen for each month in each age category (ages 5 and younger, 6-10, and 11-14). For more details, visit the Half Price Books website.
Encouraging feeding your brain, Half Price Books offers an incentive with two available $5 gift cards (HPB Bookworm Bucks) – one for June and one for July. As you read and your students read, record the minutes and redeem. Happy summer reading!