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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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    About the library

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

    GHPL is a founding member (1988) and the Administering Library for the Central Library Consortium (CLC).

    This cooperative among 18 Central Ohio library systems, in partnership with statewide network OhioLINK, offers 67 million items to cardholders. 

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    Wed, Jan 28, All day
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    Stay warm and cozy this winter with great books for a chance to win great prizes!

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    Wed, Jan 28, 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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    Enjoy monthly art exhibits on the second level of the library.

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