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2025 GPL Summer Reading and Learning Club

Read and Play!

Participate in a variety of fun reading and learning activities. Be creative, discover your next passion, and then enter to win awesome prizes!  Georgina Public Library’s Summer Reading and Learning Club runs until Saturday, June 14 to Friday, August 15, 2025 for anybody in Grade 8 or below.

Step 1: You will need a Summer Reading and Learning game card to play.
  • Pick up a game card from any library branch.
    • If you are not yet in school, pick up the purple Baby to Pre-K game card.
    • If you are in Kindergarten to Grade 8, pick up the blue Kindergarten to Grade 8 game card. 
  • Print off a game card from home.
    • Print off the Baby to Pre-Kindergarten game card.
    • Print off the Kindergarten to Grade 8 game card. 
Step 2: Do fun Reading and Learning activities all summer.
Record your reading and learning activities on your game card.
 Step 3:  Enter to win prizes by submitting your game card by Wednesday, August 20.
  • Drop off the paper game cards to any library branch.
  • Email a picture of your game card to us.

Read and Play Activities 

Baby to Pre-Kindergarten
  • Read 15 minutes, 3 times per week
  • Borrow a book or attend a library program
  • Enter our prize draws
  • Draw or write about a book that was read to you this week.             
  • Create art
  • Make music
  • Explore nature
  • Learn a new word
  • Read at least 15 minutes every day (bonus!)  
Kindergarten to Grade 8
  • Read 30 minutes, 3 times per week
  • Borrow a book from the library or attend a library program
  • Enter our prize draws
  • Draw or write about a book that was read to you this week.   
  • Create art
  • Make music
  • Play outside
  • Talk to somebody about a book you read
  • Read at least 15 minutes every day (bonus!)  

Enjoy more fun reading and learning activities and complete your activity card with the TD Summer Reading Club and Georgina Public Library Programs.

Enter your game card in a draw for fantastic prizes. The more reading and learning activities you complete, the bigger prize you can win! 

Game card submission deadline is Wednesday, August 20.

Three draw prize winners will be randomly chosen from each category:

  • Age 0 to pre-Kindergarten
  • Grade 2 and under
  • Grades 3 to 5
  • Grades 6 to 8

The prize awarded will be based on the total number of activities that a winner completed.

  • $25.00 prize:  8 to 24 activities
  • $50.00 prize: 25 to 48 activities
  • $75.00 prize- 49 to 72 activities

A winner can select a gift certificate in the amount of the prize awarded from a local business of their choice. Last year, winners selected prizes to the following businesses:

  • Indigo
  • Giant Tiger
  • Connors Music
  • Imagine Cinemas

The winners for all of the prize draws will be contacted on Friday, August 22.

Additionally, we will also be running weekly Friday prize draws at all GPL branches. One prize winner will be selected each week from each branch starting Friday, July 4 until Friday, August 15. Ballots for the weekly prize draws are due on the Wednesday before the draw date. Children can enter these prize draws by reading or drawing about books that they read or were read to them.

The contest resets each week, so enter each week for more chances to win. You can also increase your chances of winning by reporting on multiple books in a week. Weekly draw prizewinners will be contacted at the end of the week via the contact information provided on their ballot. Prizes are generously sponsored by GBK Financial Inc. “Your Family Mortgage Company” Lic. #11921.

Submit your ballots at any GPL branch or by emailing a picture of your ballot to libraryprograms@georgina.ca. Your printable ballot will be available starting Saturday, June 14.

Georgina Public Library Summer Reading and Learning Club contest rules
  • The Summer Reading and Learning Club is open to all Georgina Public Library cardholders, Grade 8 and under.
  • The winners of the prize draw will be required to provide Georgina Public Library with their name, phone number, and complete address to confirm that they are a GPL cardholder.
  • The prize will be forfeited and GPL will draw another winner if the selected entrant:
    • Declines the prize.
    • Fails to pick up the prize within 30 days.
  • Each Summer Reading and Learning Club game card will be one entry for the prize draws.
  • Limit of one prize per person into the end of summer prize draw.
  • Prizes must be accepted as awarded.
  • Entering the challenge signifies your acceptance of these rules.
  • GPL’s Summer Reading and Learning Club runs from Saturday, June 14 Friday, August 15, 2025.
  • Prize draws will be held on Friday, August 22, 2025.
  • Prizes are generously sponsored by GBK Financial Inc. “Your Family Mortgage Company” Lic. #11921.
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