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Reading and Badge Challenge 2026

📚 Read or be read to 20+ minutes per day (audiobooks count)
Or read for a total of 600 minutes (10 hours)
🏅 Complete 3 activity badges
📅 June 6 to August 8
2026 Theme: Unearth a Story™ 🦖

Get a prize starting June 8!
Ages 0 to 17: Free book
Adults: Free mug
While supplies last at any Austin Public Library branch

Participate

📲 Join Online:
Sign up and track progress at library.austintexas.gov/beanstack 
Or use the Beanstack app.

🖍️ Go Lo-Fi:
Pick up a printed challenge at any APL branch or from the links below in each age group.
Print a coloring sheet.

Plus!
Free events all summer long