Winter Reading Challenge
Winter Reading Challenge 2026: Registration Begins December 30
The 2026 Winter Reading Challenge theme is "Read with Benny". Books are the ultimate fuel for your imagination and intellect. With a library card, you can borrow from thousands of books and digital materials, attend free programs, and even get expert recommendations from our librarians.
We challenge each participant to read and log at least 8 hours (or 480 minutes). Earn fun badges for logging your reading, completing activities, submitting book reviews, and earning bingo.
Register HERE for the "Read with Benny" winter reading challenge, sponsored by the Friends of Handley Regional Library, our friends at The River Radio Station, 95.3 and on Beanstack.
Readers Ages 0-17
Complete a BINGO card by logging reading, completing activities, and submitting book reviews. Log through the Beanstack App.
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
Read. Track. Win!
1KBb4K is a year-round library program that encourages all families and caregivers to read at least 1,000 books with their young children before they enter Kindergarten. Reading to your children is the best way to prepare them for Kindergarten! 1KBb4K encourages families to spend quality time together and promotes pre-literacy learning so that children enter school ready to read, listen, and learn.
- Any child from birth to entering Kindergarten can participate in this self-paced early literacy program at Handley Regional Library System.
- Each Fall and Spring, we have a graduation ceremony to acknowledge the achievement of the graduates of the program.
- Learn more about the program HERE.
- Register HERE!
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Your Next Chapter
Your Next Chapter is a year-round reading program for all ages! Log your reading throughout the year to earn badges. Try reading each day for 20 minutes. You will earn achievements when you hit major reading milestones, like logging your first book, completing your first challenge, or maintaining a lengthy reading streak, as well as when you read on special days or holidays. If you do, special badges will be yours! Can you gather them all in 2025? We challenge you! Register for the challenge HERE!
Summer Reading Program
This Reading Program has ended. Join us for the new challenge in 2026-Unearth a Story!
June 1 to July 31, 2025, we encouraged all ages, from preschoolers to teens, to read during summer break as we enjoyed a fun and colorful Reading Program "Color Our World".
Learn more HERE and register your family! Log through the Beanstack App by creating an account or signing in to log. Logging was available from June 1 to July 31, 2025.
Pre-Readers Ages 0-5
Earn online badges and raffle tickets as you count how many hours you can read this summer! Every 3 hours read = 1 virtual raffle ticket and 1 free book from the library. Log through the Beanstack App starting May 31, and try to read all the way to the "completion" of the program by reading 48 total hours by July 31! (Readers will still be able to log and participate even after passing the "end" of the program). Brag tags for pre-readers will be earned at registration and at hour benchmarks 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, and 48.
Readers Ages 6 and Up
Earn online badges and raffle tickets as you count how many hours you can read this season! Every 6 hours read = 1 virtual raffle ticket and 1 free book from the library. Log through the Beanstack App starting June 1, and try to read all the way to the "completion" of the program by reading 96 hours total by July 31! (Readers will still be able to log and participate even after passing the "end" of the program). Brag tags for readers are earned at registration and at hour benchmarks 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84, and 96.
All logging needed to be entered by July 31 at 11:59 PM.
Log through the Beanstack App by creating an account or signing in to log for any of our Reading Programs. Can't remember your login information? Just email beanstackhelp@handleyregional.org for assistance.