They’re Coming!
Are You Brave Enough to Teach a Dragon to Read?
The 2026 Winter Read Challenge is where young people, grades K through 12th, may adopt a young dragon as a reading partner and take on the reading challenge of 840 minutes (14 hours) over four weeks. Check out the Challenge rules click here. For every two hours of reading, participants will earn a raffle ticket for a chance at a raffle prize. Check out our raffle prize page click here. Participants will also earn books to keep. When a young person signs up for the Challenge they will get to pick a book to start their journey on. Then for every 300 minutes (five hours) of reading they will get to pick another book up to the total of 840 minutes (14 hours). Upon completing the challenge participants will get one more book.
The Winter Read Challenge starts February 14 to March 14. Last day to record reading times and get raffle tickets will be March 13 ending at 7:00 pm. Sign up for the Challenge and to adopt a dragon starts February 12. There will be programs for all ages during the Winter Read Challenge, so keep your eye on our events pages. The program will end with a pizza party on March 14. We will draw the winners of the raffles at the Pizza Party.
