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Summer Reading

June 12 - August 27
Join us for another exciting summer at the Rocky Hill Library!
Read and earn a chance to win some awesome prizes! 

We have reading programs for ALL AGES available online through our Beanstack tracker program / app where you can log your reading activity.  The more you read, the more raffle tickets you will earn towards our prize drawings!  All raffle prizes winners will be drawn in early September. If you have any questions, please contact the Information Desk at 860-258-7623.

 

Babies, toddlers and preschoolers: Earn one digital raffle ticket and one mini prize for every 10 books read. Come visit us at the library to pick up your mini prize! Put your raffles tickets toward these great prizes:                     

Soft Baby Beehive (ages 6-12 months)     Engineer a Coaster Activity Kit (ages 3 and up)
Sensory Turtle (ages 6 to 12 months) Ultimate Fort Builder (ages 4 and up)
Tonie Starter Kit-Disney (ages 3 and up) Doctor Vet Kit Set (ages 3-6)

Kindergarten to 5th grade: Earn one digital raffle ticket and one mini prize for every 10 days read. Come visit us at the library to pick up your mini prize! Put your raffles tickets toward these great prizes:

$100 Gift Card to Fun City Adventure Park  LEGO Spiderman Set
2  Basketball Hall of Fame tickets ($40 value) Magic Kit 
Art Set - 132 pieces  3D Printed Dragon
Barnes and Noble - $25 Gift card STEM Robot 
Kiwi Spoon - $25 gift card Magic Tree House Merlin Missions - 27 Volume Set
LEGO Dinosaur Set My Weird School - 21 Volume Set of Books

Teens entering 6th to 12th grade: Earn one digital raffle ticket for every book read.  Put your raffles tickets toward these great prizes:

$25 Kiwi Spoon Gift Card $25 Salem Valley Farms Gift Card $25 Kobocha Bubble Tea Gift Card

 Adults: Earn one digital raffle ticket for every book read. You could win a $100 gift card to a local business of your choice! (Adults can instead use a paper form available at the library instead of the online version).

 

BONUS PRIZES! For babies - grade 5: Check out 10  books and show your receipt to a librarian to enter a monthly $5 raffle for a local treat!

 

A HUGE thank you to our sponsors for Summer Reading 2025:

  • Friends of the Rocky Hill Library
  • Fun City Rocky Hill
  • Hartford Athletic
  • Basketball Hall of Fame
  • Pottery Piazza

(For a video tutorial on logging your books for babies - pre-K, click HERE).

(For a video tutorial on logging days read for grades K-5, click HERE).