Article by Miriam Hagg, 
SPO Junior Reporter

Do you need something to keep you busy this summer? Do you love to read books and get prizes? If so, the Warsaw Community Public Library’s Summer Reading Program is for you.

This summer, you can go to the public library and receive a recording sheet that fits your age group. Children aged from one year old to second grade record the books they read. Children from third grade to sixth grade, teens and adults record the number of pages they have read.

In the children’s programs students receive coupons, grab bag prizes and more. In the teen’s program, students receive coupons, grab bag prizes and chances to win a Kindle Fire and many other prizes including movie tickets, a paint-your-own pottery kit, a gift certificate for a local nail art shop and nail art pens. Adults can win gift certificates to restaurants, a Vera Bradley tote or a nonresident library card. They can also win pens, notepads, key chains and other items for reaching their goals and certain numbers of pages.

I like the teen’s reading program because it is a way to earn prizes while having fun. Every year, I have a competition with my friends to see who can read the most pages. I love the friendliness of the library staff, and how rewarding the reading program is.

Even if you are starting later this year, you can still count books and pages that you have read earlier this summer, since Saturday, June 5. Be sure to obtain your prizes by 6 p.m. Friday, July 18, so you can enjoy your prizes and know that you have ignited your imagination.