2024 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, August 17 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.
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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 21. |
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Read and Play Activities
Baby to Pre-Kindergarten |
- Read 15 minutes, 3 times per week
- Feel free to record which books were read to you/you read in your TD Summer Reading Club booklet.
- Borrow a book or attend a library program
- Explore nature
- Create art
- Make music
- Visit a local park or a local beach
- Learn a new word
- Read at least 15 minutes every day (bonus!)
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Kindergarten to Grade 8 |
- Read 30 minutes, 3 times per week
- Feel free to record which books you have read in your TD Summer Reading Club booklet.
- Borrow a book from the library or attend a library program
- Explore nature
- Create art
- Make music
- Play a sport
- Talk to somebody about a book you read
- Read at least 15 minutes every day (bonus!)
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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! Complete at least 24 activities to have your game card count towards your school’s completion rate.
Game card submission deadline is Wednesday, August 21.
Two 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 23.
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.
- Prizes must be accepted as awarded.
- Entering the challenge signifies your acceptance of these rules.
- GPL’s Summer Reading and Learning Club runs until Saturday, August 17
- Prize draws will be held on Friday, August 23.
- Prizes are generously sponsored by Friends of the Library.
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