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Summer Reading Challenge

May 26-August 2

2026-05-26 00:00:00 2026-05-26 23:59:00 America/New_York Summer Reading Challenge Grandview Heights -

Tuesday, May 26
All day

Add to Calendar 2026-05-26 00:00:00 2026-05-26 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!

REGISTRATION COMING SOON!

KIDS & TEENS   

🎁 Read all summer long and earn fun prizes at the library!

How do I earn prizes?     

🎢 KINGS ISLAND RAFFLE
Register before June 3 to enter a raffle for (4) Kings Island single-day tickets.

🎯 COUPONS & RAFFLE TICKETS
Complete different activities to earn great prizes, such as coupons to local businesses, a blank book, and Grand Prize raffle tickets. 

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

🎡 PRIZE WHEEL
Spin the library prize wheel as you reach checkpoints on your summer reading journey.

What are the prizes?   

🎟️ Grand Prize Raffle Ticket
📓 Blank Book
🎫 Coupon Pack

Grand Prizes for Kids (Ages 0–11)

🚒 Ride in a Firetruck (GH Residents only)
💳 $25 Lion Cubs Gift Card
🎨 Clay Cafe Ceramics + Coloring Time
💎 National Geographic Geodes Kit
🦖 LEGO Classic Creative Dinosaurs Set
🎨 Deluxe Art Set
🦕 Dinosaur Squishmallow
🦖 Triceratops Squishmallow

Grand Prizes for Teens (Ages 12–17)

💳 $25 Amazon Gift Card
🎮 $25 Roblox Gift Card
💄 $25 Sephora Gift Card
🎬 Grandview Theatre Pack
🎨 Clay Cafe Ceramics + Coloring Time
🧱 LEGO Creator Dinosaur Building Set
📖 Cozy Coloring Books with Markers
🐉 Dragon Squishmallow

Thank you to our generous Summer Reading Challenge sponsors! 

🍚 BIBIBOP Asian Grill
📚 Blue Couch Bookshop
🧋 Bubbles Tea & Juice Company
🎨 Clay Cafe
🍦 Dairy Queen
🥞 DK Diner
🚒 Grandview Heights Division of Fire
🎭 Grandview Theater & Drafthouse
🍿 Grandview Pool Concessions
🎢 Kings Island Amusement Park
🍪 Lion Cub’s Cookies
🍫 Pure Imagination Chocolatier


ADULTS  

REGISTRATION COMING SOON!

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

How To 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 2 to enter the Grand Prize Drawings.

Grand Prize Drawings

🛋️ BLUE COUCH BOOKSHIP BUNDLE
• Items from Blue Couch Bookshop including a gift card

🍝 CANDLELIT DINNER
• Gift card to Penn and Beech
• Gift card to Trattoria Roma

🧩 THIS IS PUZZLING
• 2 puzzles
• Snacks from Krema
• Pure Imagination chocolates

🎲 GAME NIGHT
• 2 party games
• Lions Cubs Cookies gift card
• Snacks from Krema

🏡 HAPPY HOME
• Cheese Board
• Coasters
• Candle
• Glenn Ave Soap Co. Gift card

🌙 GRANDVIEW NIGHT OUT
• Gift card to the Grandview Theater
• Gift card to Johnsons Real Ice Cream
• Cozy blanket


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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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