Reading Challenges

Adults

Summer

The Golden Ticket Challenge runs June 3- August 12. Patrons will pick up a Golden Ticket Challenge card. For every scratch-off challenge completed, you get a ticket for our raffle prizes. Each card has three Golden Ticket Challenges, so each card can earn up to 3 raffle tickets.

Challenges can be completed more than once and there is no limit on number of challenge attempts. If you read one book which meets the requirements for two Golden Ticket challenges, it can count for both.

Everybody can submit their raffle tickets for prizes in their age group.

Raffles are drawn every month of the Challenge. Winners will be contacted on June 30, July 31, and August 14. Prizes include books, candy, gift cards, and more.

Winter

Details coming soon!

Teens

Battle of the Books (grades 7-12)

The Battle of the Books happens every year in late winter and early spring.

Get a group of friends together (no more than 5 people per team), start reading, and prepare to battle. You and your team will travel over to Quaker Valley Middle School to face off with other teams from Allegheny, Beaver, and Butler counties in a trivia competition that will prove who knows there books the best! The top 3 placing teams in each battle will receive gift cards, plus there’s lot of giveaways and treats the night of the battle.

So if you’ve got a competitive spirit, love to read, and just want to kick some butt, Teen Battle of the Books is for you! And you don’t have to be from Moon to participate…battle participants can come from anywhere. Moon, Quaker Valley, Cornell, OLSH, Seneca Valley, Montour Propel Charter School, Lincoln Park Performing Arts School, Ambridge, Hopewell, Central Valley, Pine-Richland, and St. James are just a few of the schools who’ve battled over the years.

Summer Reading

Everybody can submit their raffle tickets for prizes in their age group.

Raffles are drawn every month of the Challenge. Winners will be contacted on June 30, July 31, and August 14. Prizes include books, candy, gift cards, and more

Kids

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Moon Township Public Library participates in the nation-wide literacy program 1000 Books Before Kindergarten which asks parents to read 1000 books to your infant/toddler before they start kindergarten. Reading to children increases their learning potential so they will be ready to hit the ground running when they step into their first classroom.

Stop by the library for a reading log (and free tote bag to lug all your books around) and get started! At every 100 books completed, return to the library and your kid will get a prize.

You can download logs online or install the iPhone and Android apps.

Battle of the Books (grades 3-6)

Battle of the Books is our annual book trivia competition held in the spring. Our children’s librarian carefully selects ten books for each grade, and creates trivia questions around them. You’ll get to create a team, think up a cool team name, and even make team costumes or props. After you’ve read and created, you’ll meet for one night with all the other teams to battle it all out! Amazing prizes are at stake, plus you’ll get to read some awesome books in the process. Proceed with caution, this battle gets intense!

Summer Adventure

Kids can win a small prize for every Golden Ticket Challenge card they turn in. Everybody can submit their raffle tickets for prizes in their age group.