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Summer Reading Challenge

May 27-August 3

2025-08-03 00:00:00 2025-08-03 23:59:00 America/New_York Summer Reading Challenge Grandview Heights -

Sunday, August 03
All day

Add to Calendar 2025-08-03 00:00:00 2025-08-03 23:59:00 America/New_York Summer Reading Challenge Summer reading fun for the whole family! Grandview Heights -

Summer reading fun for the whole family!

REGISTER! Find full details here or below:

KIDS & TEENS   

🎁 Reach your summer reading goals and earn fun prizes!

How do I earn prizes?     

🎢 KING’S ISLAND RAFFLE
Register before June 2 to enter a raffle for 4 King's Island single-day tickets.

🎯 COUPONS & RAFFLE TICKETS
Set your own Daily Reading Goal and earn great prizes, such as coupons to local businesses and Grand Prize raffle tickets.

🧸 STUFFED READING BUDDY
Registration includes a stuffed reading buddy to read to all summer long.

🎡 PRIZE WHEEL
All participants are invited to stop in the library and spin the new Prize Wheel once a week for a chance to win treasure chest prizes or extra Grand Prize raffle tickets.

What are the prizes?   

🎟️ Grand Prize Raffle Ticket
📓 Blank Book
🎫 Coupon Pack

What are the Grand Prizes?    

🚒 Ride in a Fire Truck (Grandview Heights residents only)
🧱 LEGO Set
🎨 Art Kit
🦄 Squishmallow Stuffed Toy
☕ Clay Café Mugs + Coloring Time
🍪 Lion Cub’s Cookies Gift Card
🎬 Grandview Theater & Drafthouse Passes for 4
💄 Sephora Gift Card
📦 Amazon Gift Card
🎮 Roblox Gift Card

Thank you to our generous Summer Reading Challenge sponsors! 

🎨 Clay Cafe on 5th Ave.
🍦 Dairy Queen on 5th Ave.
🍩 DK Diner
🚒 Grandview Heights Division of Fire
🎬 Grandview Theater & Drafthouse
🏊 Grandview Pool Concessions
🍪 Lion Cub’s Cookies
🍬 Pure Imagination Chocolatier


⚽ Culture Pass: Score a Columbus Crew Family Pack! 
Kick off a summer of reading and family fun with a special GHPL Culture Pass! Thanks to a partnership with the Columbus Crew, we're offering limited family 4-packs of tickets to a Crew match on Sunday, June 29, at Lower.com Field. Entries accepted 6/13-20 at ghpl.org/crew 


ADULTS  

REGISTER!

📚 Read books, earn tickets, and enter to win amazing prizes—all summer long!

How do I earn prizes?

📖 READ BOOKS
Every book you read (up to 10) earns you a raffle ticket! All books count—mystery, romance, cookbooks, graphic novels, even audiobooks!

🎟️ RAFFLE TICKETS
Turn in your tickets at the library or drive-thru by August 3 to enter the Grand Prize Drawings.

🎁 BONUS COUPON
Read 5 books and get a $5.00 off coupon to Penn & Beech Candle Co. (while supplies last!)

What are the prizes?

🍿 Popcorn & Premiere
Grandview Theater gift card, popcorn bucket with free refills in 2025, and a theater pint glass

Roast and Relax
Gift cards to Grandview Grind, Stauf’s, and Boston Stoker + a travel mug and cozy coasters

🎲 Sweet & Salty Game Night
Two games, Krema snack mix, and chocolate truffles from Pure Imagination Chocolatier

🧼 So Fresh & So Clean
Gift basket from Glenn Avenue Soap Company, hand towels, and a frog sponge holder

🌿 Builder’s Basket
LEGO succulent set, a puzzle, and a Lion Cub’s Cookies gift card

🕯️ Candlelit Dinner
Gift card to Penn & Beech to make your own candle + a Figlio restaurant gift card


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    The Grandview Heights Public Library (GHPL) is an award-winning, independent suburban library system known for progressive leadership and friendly, personalized service.  

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