Summer Reading & Other Challenges

Reading Challenges
for All Ages

2025 Storybook Walk

Print your English or Spanish form or pick up a copy at the library!

 

​Walk around downtown with your family and find book covers displayed in the windows of many businesses!
Write the first TWO WORDS in the title on the form. Find at least half of them to earn a free book & a chance to win a grand prize.  Find most of them & you will earn an extra entry into the grand prize drawing!  Return forms to the youth desk at the Marshalltown Library by May 5, 2025 to be eligible for the drawings.  

 

Read. Learn. Earn Badges & Prizes.

Sign up with a computer or download the free Beanstack Tracker app!

 

Summer Reading Challenge for ALL AGES
Coming summer 2025: Level Up At Your Library

VIDEOS: Virtual Summer Visit to Library
OR How to Use Beanstack 2024

Earn swim passes, Blank Park Zoo & Iowa Cubs Tickets,
food coupons, bedtime buddies, & more. Plus get chances for grand prizes!

Read 1000 Books Together– ongoing
Start logging books with your baby, toddler, or preschooler.
Prizes for reaching milestones of 25, 100, 500, 800 books.
Receive a “Super Readers Prize Pack” at 1000 books (by the time your child turns 10),
plus your picture in our Super Readers photo album if you choose.
You can participate in 1000 Books AND other challenges going on at the same time. 

Need Help with Beanstack?
If you’ve forgotten your login info, or need help signing up or logging, just ask us anytime!

There are also lots of free activities going on this summer:
Check out the Events Calendar, or like us on Facebook!

Need help? Stop by the youth desk or give us a call at 641-754-5738, ext. 3.
Or email us at libraryyouth@marshalltown-ia.gov