Adult & Teen Winter Reading Challenge
“The Great Escape,” Great River Regional Library's 2025 Winter Reading Challenge, begins Thursday, January 2, and runs through Friday, February 28.
This winter, make reading your great escape! Reading is an incredible escape, allowing you to travel to different places and times, uncover new ideas, gain fresh perspectives, and embark on thrilling adventures. Embrace the challenge and dive into the pages of a library book to make your great escape!
The challenge incentivizes readers to build winter reading habits. It is designed primarily for teens and adults and is open to anyone in the 6th grade or older. Each of the 32 branch libraries in the GRRL system will have prize drawings for participants. All book lovers need do is register for the program at a branch library, on the GRRL site, or on the Beanstack Tracker app. Readers can log their winter reading at griver.beanstack.org or in the app.
By downloading and using the app, readers can keep track of their reading, get book recommendations, and earn online badges to help make reading a habit. Also, readers will count the minutes they spend reading, so any amount of daily reading will make participants eligible for online badges and prizes. Each library branch will have drawings for special “The Great Escape” mugs and winter hats.
