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Color your summer with imagination, creativity, and a whole lot of reading! SRC is our way of encouraging everyone to read together all summer long – in whatever form that takes! It could be audiobooks, eBooks, graphic novels, picture books, chapter books – we love them all! While you’re here getting books, check out one of our many events for kids, teens, or adults. Whatever age you are, we encourage you to celebrate the summer at FPL!
Saturday, May 31, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Inspyral Circus at 1pm
Mark your calendars for our biggest party of the year! Guests include Amazeum, the Wheel Mobile, Big Poppa Bubble, an Amazing Lego Layout by ArkLUG, bounce houses, glitter tattoos, and food! Inspyral Circus will close out the fun at 1 p.m. with a performance in the Event Center. Presented by Walmart.
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Listeners, and kids are not required to read a certain amount of books – instead, we reward minutes spent reading. The goal is for each reader to get to 1,000 points. That equals 20 minutes a day of reading for 7 weeks.
And you can earn more than 1,000 points! We want each reader to have an attainable goal, but we encourage super readers to keep on reading. For every 100 minutes you track, you will earn additional entries into grand prize drawings.
For participating adults, every book read qualifies you for a chance to win a weekly prize, and every five books is an entry into the grand prize drawing.
Track your minutes online or through the READsquared app and earn points for all of the reading you complete, which enters you into drawings for grand prizes. Register and start tracking your reading in May with prize drawings beginning after SRC kicks off in June. Adult winners need to have an FPL library card and register for the program through Read Squared. Youth winners may have an FPL library card in their own name or in a caregiver's name and must register for the program through ReadSquared.
READsquared app gives you the opportunity to...
+ Track your time spent reading or amount of books read
+ Write book reviews
+ Earn badges based on activites you've completed
The READsquared app is available for Android, iPhone and any device with a web browser and an internet connection.
Download Android app → Download iOS app → READsquared website →
READsquared is the program that helps you track your reading. Instead of paper logs, you'll track your minutes online or through the app. You earn points for all of the reading you complete, which enters you into drawings for grand prizes.
We will offer fun programs for all ages throughout the summer! From story times and musical guests to magicians and craft projects, we have something for all kids and teens! The best way to know what we have going on is to check out our calendar. You can sort our events by age group, too! Keep in mind that many events have registrations, but we do offer some events more than once. For families looking for something to do, Wild for Wednesday is each Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Event Center. Super Saturdays continue each Saturday of the summer at 10 a.m. - a fun, family friendly performance! Our weekly story times include Baby Bookworms, Toddler Time and Preschool Story Time. No registration needed! Adult summer reading programs include Yoga @ FPL, Mindfulness Meditation, Mountain Street Stage concerts, computer classes, seven librarian lead book clubs, author events, a variety of events on the SRC theme and more!
For Listeners, Children, and Teens, prizes will be given away at the 300, 500, 700, and 1,000 point levels. For Listeners, get ready for some cool treasure box prizes! If you read for 1,000 minutes, you will earn a treasure and a free book. For Grade School Kids and Teens, you will earn coupons to local Fayetteville businesses – like Sissy’s SnoCones and Whataburger. Every reader who finishes the program wins another coupon and a free book. Grand Prize Raffle drawings will take place the week of August 7th. If you have logged reading minutes in Read Squared, you are eligible for our Grand Prize Raffle Drawings – you can even put your points in the Raffle of your choice!
Listeners, kids and teens are not required to read a certain amount of books – instead, we reward minutes spent reading. The goal is for each reader to get to 1,000 points. That equals 20 minutes a day of reading for 7 weeks. And you can earn more than 1,000 points! We want each reader to have an attainable goal, but we encourage super readers to keep on reading. For every 100 minutes you track, you will earn additional entries into grand prize drawings. For participating adults, every book read qualifies you for a chance to win a weekly prize, and every five books is an entry into the grand prize drawing.
We have a program for listeners, which is generally kids 0-5. Any book that is read to them counts as minutes that can be logged!
Yes! In the kids' program, you can log the minutes your child reads independently as well as ones that you read to them. You can also log minutes for multiple children simultaneously.
Yes! Each child who meets their reading goal and completes the program (1,000 points) will get to pick out a book they can keep.
We prefer you use the READsquared app to log summer reading. You can even log the same reading for multiple kids at once! If logging online is a barrier, you can track the minutes read using paper and pen. In order to be eligible for prizes, just email kidsquestions@faylib.org by July 31 at 5 p.m. and we can “bulk log” for your child or children.
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