This year’s theme is Library Top 100.
Adults: Complete one activity from each of the ten categories.
Teens: Complete one activity from each of the ten categories or read 1500 pages.

  • Stop by the library to pick up the official teen/adult reading log.
  • Return your completed form to the library for a prize, a book, and 3 entries for our drawing.
  • Library Top 100 books and activities should be books/activities that you finished this summer.
  • Unless noted, books may be in any format: audiobook, ebook, large print, nonfiction, etc.
  • One returned card per reader.
  • Library Top 100 forms may be returned starting Monday, June 11.
  • Library Top 100 forms must be returned by 6:00 pm on Friday, August 24.

Library Top 100

  • Jingle – Do something short and sweet
    1. Read a picture book
    2. Read a magazine
    3. Read a short story
    4. Read an essay
    5. Read a poem
    6. Read to someone else for 10 minutes
    7. Write a six-word story
    8. Listen to a new song
    9. Watch an episode of a new-to-you show
    10. Make up your own short activity

     

  • Symphony – Do something challenging
    1. Watch a movie and the sequel
    2. Read a book that’s over 400 pages
    3. Watch an entire season of a show
    4. Read a book from the PBS Great American Read list
    5. Read a book and watch the movie
    6. Learn to play a musical instrument
    7. Listen to an entire symphony piece
    8. Play a game that lasts over an hour (Monopoly, Risk, Settlers of Catan…)
    9. Make up your own challenging activity

     

  • Techno – Find your techie side
    1. Read a nonfiction book
    2. Read a science fiction book
    3. Build something
    4. Watch a documentary
    5. Read the manual for something you own
    6. Learn how to get ebooks or e-audiobooks from the library
    7. Listen to a podcast
    8. Learn how to repair or mend something you own
    9. Follow and/or tag the library on social media
    10. Make up your own technical activity

     

  • Experimental – Find your creative side
    1. Read a graphic novel
    2. Read a fiction book
    3. Read a book with song lyrics in the title
    4. Watch an animated movie
    5. Take a photo everyday for a week
    6. Write a poem, story, essay, or song
    7. Visit the Rountree Gallery exhibit at the library
    8. Visit the Nohr Gallery at UW-P
    9. Create a mixtape or a playlist
    10. Make up your own creative activity

     

  • Folk – Connect with others in your community
    1. Read a local newspaper front to back
    2. Read the same book as someone else and discuss it
    3. Read a book set in a state you’ve lived in
    4. Visit a Little Free Library and leave a book
    5. Send a thank you note
    6. Call someone you haven’t talked to in a while
    7. Hide an encouraging note somewhere for a friend or stranger
    8. Volunteer your time to help a person or an organization
    9. See a local theater performance or live music event
    10. Make up your own community activity

     

  • Country – Enjoy the great outdoors
    1. Spend 30 minutes outside reading a book or listening to an audiobook
    2. Read a book with an animal in it
    3. Read a book with an outdoors-y cover
    4. Walk or bike the Rountree Trail
    5. Plant something
    6. Go to an outdoor concert
    7. Cook something outside
    8. Identify six new-to-you constellations
    9. Use a library resource to identify an unknown rock, plant, or animal
    10. Make up your own outdoor activity

     

  • Comedy album – Enjoy your summer
    1. Read a book with a cover that makes you smile
    2. Read a book of comic strips
    3. Watch a funny movie or TV show
    4. Watch a comedy special
    5. Listen to a funny podcast or radio show
    6. Come to a library program
    7. Play a game with a friend
    8. Have a mini dance party with a friend
    9. Tell the librarians a joke
    10. Make up your own fun activity

     

  • Classical – Connect with the past
    1. Read a book that is older than you
    2. Read a book that is set in the past
    3. Visit the Rollo Jamison & Mining Museum
    4. Visit the SW Wisconsin Room at UW-P
    5. Ask family about an early musical memory
    6. Write a letter to your future self
    7. Make a time capsule
    8. Use the library microfilm machine to read a newspaper from before you were born
    9. Watch a black and white movie
    10. Make up your own historical activity

     

  • New age – Try something new
    1. Read something off the library’s new shelf
    2. Read a new-to-you magazine front to back
    3. Close your eyes and pick a book
    4. Read a book about someone from a different culture
    5. Try a new recipe, new fruit, or new veggie
    6. Ask for a book or movie recommendation
    7. Listen to a new-to-you musical artist
    8. Watch a movie filmed in another country
    9. Visit a library that’s not the Platteville Public Library
    10. Make up your own new-to-you activity

     

  • Freestyle – Your turn to improvise
    1. Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
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