Learn About the Library's Reading Challenges

Did you know the library offers reading challenges with the opportunity to win prizes for both kids and adults?

For kids of preschool age, we have the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Challenge. Parents can register online at ggcpl.readsquared.com and log your child's progress. If you read just one book a day to your child, you can read over 1000 books in just three years! And your child will earn prizes for various milestones along the way. School age children can instead join the 100 book challenge, where they are asked to read and review 100 chapter or non-fiction books. Registration and logging for this challenges is also at ggcpl.readsquared.com For adults, the Greeneville/Greene County Public Library offers the Authors Across the Alphabet Challenge! The goal of the challenge is to find new favorite books by choosing 26 new authors whose work you haven't read before for each letter of the alphabet. Download the Authors Across the Alphabet challenge worksheet by clicking this link:

or stop in and pick up a worksheet at the library. Fill in each block by identifying your chosen author (an author whose last name begins with that letter of the alphabet), the book title, and your rating of the book. Then, when you've filled in every block, turn in your completed worksheet packet to a Library staff member to win a prize! This challenge is targeted for adults but open to all ages. There are no restrictions on the kind of book or where you read it, whether it's from your library or ours, an ebook or an audiobook or a graphic novel. Just have fun and explore the wide world of reading by challenging yourself to read something you might not have expected to love.