Teen Summer Reading Club

Milton Public Library (MPL) plans to continue using Beanstack after the summer months, offering a variety of challenges year-round to all age groups. If there is more than one person in your house that may wish to participate in a reading challenge at some point in the future, we strongly encourage you to register as a family. If you register as an individual now, and someone else from your house tries to register down the road, they will have difficulty doing so, as Beanstack will note that a registered user has the same information (e.g. phone number, postal code, etc.

There are no books available within the Beanstack app. Children & Teens are invited to read anything they wish, at any time, and simply track the time they spend reading.

MPL patrons are welcome to reserve items on the library’s website or borrow materials in-person from the library’s collection. There are also thousands of e-books available through our website. We encourage you to check out Hoopla and OverDrive.

You must meet the required time to unlock each reading badge. For example, you must read 3 hours or 180 minutes before you unlock a reading badge in the Teen Summer Reading Club Challenge.

Select the reader (child) you want to track the reading for. Click on the “logging badges” tab. Select the first grey badge available. Record the time you spent reading, in minutes.

Click on the plus (+) sign, and select “reading”. Select the reader (child) you want to track the reading for. You can scan the ISBN on the book or manually add the information. If you scan the ISBN, it will ask you to start the reading session or log past reading. Select the latter if you have already read all or some of the book. Answer the rest of the questions and click “finish”.

Wow! Well done! We hope you will keep reading but you have earned the final tracking badge for this challenge. You can however, earn more badges/tickets by completing some of the Activity Challenges by participating in some of MPL’s summer programs.

Sign in to Beanstack using a desktop computer. Click on the “ticket drawings” tab to view the prizes that are available. At the top of the page, it will tell you have many tickets you have to spend. You can decide which prize(s) you most want to win, and put your tickets towards those drawings. Remember to put all your tickets in to the drawings before the challenge closes on August 17 – you can’t enter a draw after the end of the challenge.

The Summer Reading Clubs are open until August 17th. Library staff will contact all prize winners, via email, by September 1. You will be able to pick the items up at a pre-arranged date/time and library location.

Some of the prizes will only allow you to put a certain amount of tickets towards them. However, there are lots of prizes with no maximums.

The Summer Reading Clubs are available in 100+ different languages. This feature is only available when accessing the program(s) on a desktop computer. Look for the “select language” button in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.

If you attend a program, the secret code(s) will be given to participants after the program ends. If you participate in a self-directed activity (e.g. checking out the beehives) you can follow the directions noted with the badge to send us an email. We will make sure you receive your secret code. When in doubt, please reach out to us via email at beanstack@beinspired.ca

It’s never too late for reading! You can add new readers to your account at any time. You can register for the challenge right up until the last day!

That’s OK. You can read as much, or as little as you wish. You will still earn badges and tickets.

Nope! Because the challenge is minute-based, we encourage you to spend time reading the things that get you excited to read. It could be a book, but it could also be fanficiton, a webcomic, listening to an audiobook, magazines, newspapers, or anything else you find that looks (or sounds) like fun.