July 31, 2023

The Summer Read wraps up on July 31! Be sure to bring in your Reading Record to collect rewards before it’s over.

Rewards and grand prizes are*:

YOUTH (Ages 17 and under)

Rewards:

Day 6: Choice of rubber duck or vinyl sticker + grand prize ticket
Day 12: Glider + grand prize ticket
Day 18: Monsters Hockey ticket, Cleveland Charge ticket, bubbles + grand prize ticket
Day 24: Choice of camp mug or water bottle + grand prize ticket
Day 30: Book + grand prize ticket

30 Hours Spent Outdoors:

A kickball

Grand Prizes:

Use raffle tickets to enter to win grand prizes. Prizes include your choice of:
Midway Movie Drive In Passes and Candy
S’mores Pack
Star Projector
Owl Dairies (2 books), owl bookmark, and owl book light
Tent and Lantern
Wheel Barrow and garden set
Nature Anatomy 3 book kit
Bear Grylls book set
Bear Came Along book and puppets
Hiking Water bottle
Scavenger hunt beach and scavenger hunt outdoor and naturalist vest
Librarian for a Day
Four Ticket Vouchers for Akron Rubberducks Game
Pass to Cleveland Great Lakes Science Center

ADULTS (Ages 18+)

Rewards:

Day 6: Vinyl Sticker, OH State Park certificate and Renaissance certificate + grand prize ticket
Day 12: Cosmic Magical Flames + grand prize ticket
Day 18: Wildflower Seed Ball + grand prize ticket
Day 24: Paperback book + grand prize ticket
Day 30: Camp mug + grand prize ticket

30 Hours Spent Outdoors:

Enamel Pin

Grand Prizes:

Use raffle tickets to enter to win grand prizes. Prizes include your choice of: 
$100 gift card to Ohio State Parks
Indoor gardening kit
Librarian for a Day and KFL t-shirt
Bird watching kit
Yoga kit
$100 Donation to local environmental nonprofit.  Kent Environmental Council, Wild Ohio, Portage County Parks, or Cuyahoga River Restoration

Thank you to the following donors:

Akron Rubberducks
The Cleveland Bagel Café
Daisy Pops
Great Lakes Science Center
Midway Drive In

Kent State University Athletics

The Summer Read is generously sponsored by:

Friends of Kent Free Library
Kent Free Library Foundation

*Rewards and prizes are available while supplies last. Grand prize winners will be drawn on Tuesday, August 1 and will be notified that day. Prizes must be picked up at the library by Thursday, August 31 or another winner will be drawn.