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
- Read a picture book
- Read a magazine
- Read a short story
- Read an essay
- Read a poem
- Read to someone else for 10 minutes
- Write a six-word story
- Listen to a new song
- Watch an episode of a new-to-you show
- Make up your own short activity
- Symphony – Do something challenging
- Watch a movie and the sequel
- Read a book that’s over 400 pages
- Watch an entire season of a show
- Read a book from the PBS Great American Read list
- Read a book and watch the movie
- Learn to play a musical instrument
- Listen to an entire symphony piece
- Play a game that lasts over an hour (Monopoly, Risk, Settlers of Catan…)
- Make up your own challenging activity
- Techno – Find your techie side
- Read a nonfiction book
- Read a science fiction book
- Build something
- Watch a documentary
- Read the manual for something you own
- Learn how to get ebooks or e-audiobooks from the library
- Listen to a podcast
- Learn how to repair or mend something you own
- Follow and/or tag the library on social media
- Make up your own technical activity
- Experimental – Find your creative side
- Read a graphic novel
- Read a fiction book
- Read a book with song lyrics in the title
- Watch an animated movie
- Take a photo everyday for a week
- Write a poem, story, essay, or song
- Visit the Rountree Gallery exhibit at the library
- Visit the Nohr Gallery at UW-P
- Create a mixtape or a playlist
- Make up your own creative activity
- Folk – Connect with others in your community
- Read a local newspaper front to back
- Read the same book as someone else and discuss it
- Read a book set in a state you’ve lived in
- Visit a Little Free Library and leave a book
- Send a thank you note
- Call someone you haven’t talked to in a while
- Hide an encouraging note somewhere for a friend or stranger
- Volunteer your time to help a person or an organization
- See a local theater performance or live music event
- Make up your own community activity
- Country – Enjoy the great outdoors
- Spend 30 minutes outside reading a book or listening to an audiobook
- Read a book with an animal in it
- Read a book with an outdoors-y cover
- Walk or bike the Rountree Trail
- Plant something
- Go to an outdoor concert
- Cook something outside
- Identify six new-to-you constellations
- Use a library resource to identify an unknown rock, plant, or animal
- Make up your own outdoor activity
- Comedy album – Enjoy your summer
- Read a book with a cover that makes you smile
- Read a book of comic strips
- Watch a funny movie or TV show
- Watch a comedy special
- Listen to a funny podcast or radio show
- Come to a library program
- Play a game with a friend
- Have a mini dance party with a friend
- Tell the librarians a joke
- Make up your own fun activity
- Classical – Connect with the past
- Read a book that is older than you
- Read a book that is set in the past
- Visit the Rollo Jamison & Mining Museum
- Visit the SW Wisconsin Room at UW-P
- Ask family about an early musical memory
- Write a letter to your future self
- Make a time capsule
- Use the library microfilm machine to read a newspaper from before you were born
- Watch a black and white movie
- Make up your own historical activity
- New age – Try something new
- Read something off the library’s new shelf
- Read a new-to-you magazine front to back
- Close your eyes and pick a book
- Read a book about someone from a different culture
- Try a new recipe, new fruit, or new veggie
- Ask for a book or movie recommendation
- Listen to a new-to-you musical artist
- Watch a movie filmed in another country
- Visit a library that’s not the Platteville Public Library
- Make up your own new-to-you activity
- Freestyle – Your turn to improvise
- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
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- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.
- Read, watch, or do whatever you want.