Win $500 During the Tredyffrin Book Challenge

TREDYFFRIN, PA --Are you participating in the 50th Anniversary Book Challenge?

Participants will have a chance to win one of 3 prizes worth up to $500.

The friends of Tredyffrin Public Library are donating the prizes.

Download a copy of the challenge worksheet online. You can pick one up at the library too.

The following details are provided by the library:

Simply read a book that fits the categories below. Write the titles & authors down on the challenge worksheet.

At the end of the year, hand in your worksheet and receive a raffle ticket for every category you’ve completed.

Each book should be used only once, so be careful deciding which category you want to use a title for.

We’re not going to quiz you, so please honor the spirit of the challenge and only include books you actually read in 2016.

Want extra chances? Extra raffle tickets are available on two of the categories (listed below). You can also earn extra raffle tickets by submitting a book review for possible publication on our review and recommendation blog. Reviews should be 150 words or more on books that are available through the libraries. Please include one to two sentences “about the reviewer.” Submit up to 5 reviews and receive one extra raffle ticket per review. Submit reviews to Kate Boyle at cboyle@ccls.org.

That means you can get up to 57 chances!

Click on some of the category titles below for a selection of books that fit that category.

A Book Published in 1966

A Book Published in 2016

A Book Set in a Library

Set on the Mainline

Set in the 1960s

By a Local Author

Translated from another language (extra ticket if the original language is Welsh)

With a 5, 0, or 50 in the title

With the word “gold” or “golden” in the title

A book that one of TPL’s book clubs have read prior to 2016

See back lists on the book groups page.

A book by an author named John or Tucker

A book by an author named Marian or Stevens

A book by an author named Joseph or Sherwood

A book by an author named Michael or Packard

A book by an author named Christopher or Kibler

Reread a childhood favorite

Hopefully you’ll love that Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys mystery, Harry Potter or Anne of Green Gables book as much as you did when you were a kid!

Read a book you think will be considered a classic in the next 50 years

Expecting Along Came a Spider or The Girl on the Train to still be on the shelf when TPL turns 100? You pick the next classic!

Recommended by a TPL staff member

Tredyffrin Public Library has lots of staff members with lots of opinions. Stop by and chat with a staff member or try out one of their favorites.

Recommended by a friend

We can’t wait to see what you read based on a friend’s reading habits! We love recommendations too.

Based entirely on its cover

Sometimes it’s a-okay to judge a book by its cover

Something you were supposed to read when you were in high school

Used Cliff’s Notes in high school? Try again, you just might like The Great Gatsby or The Grapes of Wrath

Set somewhere you want to visit

Award winning book from the 60s

Set in the future

By an author you’ve never read before

It’s always worth trying someone new! Maybe you’ll discover a new favorite author.

Adapted for film, television, or stage

Listen to an Audiobook

Tredyffrin Public Library offers lots of wonderful audiobook options. Childrens and YA audiobooks have no rental fees. You can also borrow audiobooks for free through Overdrive for your Apple or Android devices/home computers.

A Memoir

A Collection of Poetry

A Graphic Novel

A Banned Book

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics

A Short Story Collection

A Non-fiction Title

A Mystery Novel

A Play

A Science Fiction Novel

A Guilty Pleasure Book

We’ll never judge you for reading something that makes you happy. Also, if it makes you happy, you shouldn’t feel guilty.

Retelling of a classic

Set during or about a Holiday

Where a building is a character

“I don’t know what it’s called, but the cover is blue”

Under 300 pages

Over 300 pages

Author was under 50 when the book was published

Author was over 50 when the book was published

A Popular author’s first novel

A Book about something you love

A Biography of a Pennsylvanian

With an Animal on the cover (extra raffle ticket if it’s a fox)

From our Browsing Collection

Have you ever visited our browsing collection? Check out the shelves outside of the conference room for a collection of books that you can borrow without a fixed due date. Just bring it back when you’re done, fine free!