To celebrate reading 4 million minutes, enjoy our Community Prize of a Family Fun Night at Rascal’s Fun Zone, funded by gifts to the JCPL Foundation and our Explore Summer sponsors. Enjoy an unlimited attraction wristband to ride go-karts, play miniature golf, operate Spin Zone Bumper cars and Blaster Boats, a cup of ice cream and a $5 arcade game card. Pick up your admission token while supplies last at any Branch starting Aug. 5.
Thanks to the JCPL Foundation, we are able to provide 300 additional admission tokens available for the Rascal’s Fun Zone finishers party this Friday night. Explore Summer finishers can pick up a token while supplies last at any JCPL Branch starting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 7. To accommodate the additional people, Rascal’s will allow people with tokens to have a two-hour visit on Friday between 5 and 10 p.m.
Help us reach the 4 million minutes -- be an Eager Reader! Earn an Eager Reader Beanstack badge and be entered to win a prize drawing for Indianapolis Zoo or State Fair tickets for every additional 10 hours you read.
Register
Register in the Beanstack app/website or at any JCPL Branch starting May 13. If you register in May, you'll automatically be entered to win four (4) tickets to Kings Island.
Stop by a JCPL Branch and pick up an Explore Summer yard sign, a coupon good for a book at a 2024 Friends of JCPL book sale and an Explore Summer sticker (while supplies last).
Post the Explore Summer sign in your yard. JCPL Prize Squad will be out and about all summer, delivering prizes right to your door.
Read & Win
Read and log 10 hours (for Kids & Teens) or 15 hours (for Adults) from May 13 to July 31. When you meet your reading goal, choose a finisher's prize at your Branch.
Choice of prizes:
Stuffed Bookworm
Reusable Straw Set
Campfire Ceramic Mug
Fidget Toy
Board Book
Succulent
You will also be automatically entered into the Grand Prize drawing.
Be an Eager Reader
For every additional 10 hours you read, you will earn an Eager Reader Beanstack badge and be entered to win a prize drawing for tickets to the Indianapolis Zoo, parking included.
Weekly Learning Challenges
Each week when you complete and log three learning activities, come into a JCPL branch to pick a coupon from a local business (while supplies last) and be entered for a chance to win a weekly prize drawing:
Week 1: Tonies
Week 2: Nintendo Switch Lite
Week 3: Tent Set
Week 4: Cricut Joy
Week 5: Stanley Cups
Week 6: Bike or scooter shopping spree
JCPL Prize Squad
Our prize squad will canvas Johnson County looking for Explore Summer yard signs May 28-July 21. Select participants will receive a JCPL tote bag filled with goodies.
Grand Prize
Your Choice of:
iPhone 15, service plan not included
Holiday World Getaway Package
Beanstack
New Users: Sign upat any JCPL Branch or online using Beanstackfor an easy way to track your progress. Want to learn more about Beanstack?
Returning Users: If you participated in last year's program or Achieve 3000/1000 Books Before Kindergarten, you already have a Beanstack account. Log in at jcpl.beanstack.org or download the Beanstack Tracker mobile app to enroll in this year's program beginning May 13.
PleaseContact Usif you cannot remember how to access your account--please do not create a new one.
