WCPL 2025 Summer Reading Thank you for your participation!

Game Over! 2025 Summer Reading

The 2025 Summer Reading Program: Level Up at Your Library has ended! Thank you so much to our wonderful patrons and community for participating!

This year, the Summer Reading Program featured games and puzzles with the theme: Level Up at Your Library! With life-size board games and fun takes on classic games like Clue and Oregon Trail, this year’s summer reading sought to remind everyone that the library is a fun, joyful space for learning and connecting with friends and community.

The 2025 Summer Reading program was a huge success! This year, we had 381 readers who read a whopping total of 362,056 minutes! We also introduced a new platform this year, Beanstack, and we’ve gotten rave reviews! Going forward, we hope to continue to fine tune the program for easy access and use.

The 2025 Grand Prize winners received wonderful prizes generously donated by community businesses.

Little girl in a blue dress standing next to a table with her prize on it, a yoto player
Read to Me Grand Prize winner Sara Norvell; Yoto player sponsored by Quality Roofing Pro
Kids Grand Prize winner: Eliana Huston; Switch sponsored by McGuire & Davies Funeral Home
A teen girl smiling holding a tablet and a blue gym bag
Teen Grand Prize winner: Laurel Schmidt; Fire Max 11 tablet sponsored by Chop’s Turf
A woman smiling, holding a new tablet, still in the box
Adult Grand Prize winner: Kari Shimmin; Fire Max 11 tablet sponsored by Chop’s Turf

Special thanks to these sponsors and collaborators:

309Amtgard
4H Club
Blick Art Materials
Caterpillar Visitor’s Center
Chop’s Turf
Clark & Glasgow
Discovery Depot
Elevate
Family Museum
Figge Art Museum
FunCity
Galesburg Community Foundation
Galesburg FFA Alumni
Game On! Game Truck
Girl Scouts
Josh Brooks

Just For Fun
Kiwanis Monmouth
Lois Brechbiel
McClintock Law
McGuire & Davies Funeral Home
Midwest Bank
MRHS FFA
MTC Communications
Nahant Marsh
OSF Children’s Hospital
OSF Therapy Dog Group
Patton Block
Peoria Riverfront Museum
Prairie Moon Farm
Putnam Museum & Science Center
Quality Roofing Pro

Remy Schwass
Richard White, CPA
Rotary Monmouth
Scooter’s Coffee
Sean Stevens Insurance
Security Savings Bank
Stephanie Sims
Tanner’s Orchard
The Fun Station Quad Cities
Turnbull’s Funeral Home
University of Illinois Extension Services
Video Games Etc!
Wildlife Prairie Park
Wordsmith Bookshoppe
Wyatt Earp Birthplace