Join your favorite CLP location’s Summer Reading team and help your library community achieve citywide glory by logging books all summer long. Experience excitement, pride and prizes as your meet your personal Summer Reading goals and contribute points to your team’s overall reading tally!
The 2024 READ-A-PALOOZA BOOK BOWL 2024 Contenders are:
- ACLL Law-Law-Palooza
- CLP-Allegheny Federal Street Front Runners
- CLP-Beechview Red Line Readers
- CLP-Brookline Shelf Control
- CLP-Carrick Capybaras
- CLP-Downtown Pigeons
- CLP-East Liberty Beast Liberty
- CLP-Hazelwood 2nd Avenue Speeders
- CLP-Hill District Gems
- CLP-Homewood Bulldawgs
- CLP-Knoxville Paper Cuts
- CLP-LAMP O-LAMP-i-Yinz
- CLP-Lawrenceville Fellowship of the Books
- CLP-Main Oakland Readers
- CLP-Mt Washington Mounties
- CLP-Sheraden Gladiators
- CLP-South Side Cicadas
- CLP-Squirrel Hill Pittsburgh Squirrelers
- CLP-West End Wabash Wombats
- CLP-Woods Run Turkey Club
On your mark, get set, go!
Join a team—register with your favorite CLP location in person or online
Stop by the library to receive a READ-A-PALOOZA BOOK BOWL tote bag (while supplies last).
Sprint! Read a ton and log those books!
Log books between June 16 – August 11 to be automatically entered in your team’s monthly prize drawing.
Go for Gold! Read five books to be a Reading Challenge Champion
Earn Reading Challenge prizes (while supplies last). All readers who log five books between June 16 – August 11 will be automatically entered in the grand prize basket drawings at the end of summer. Readers who log five books will also be entered to win ticket packages to the Pirates and the Penguins, as well as for a VIP experience at Steelers Training Camp!
All Star! Finish five in-a-row with the Bingo Challenge
Win Bingo Challenge prizes (while supplies last).
MVR (Most Valuable Reader!) Read five and finish your Bingo card
You’ll be awarded a special Certificate of Completion.
Team spirit! Keep on going! Continue reading and logging books. Attend programs, check out books and encourage your friends and family to join!
Your logged books and Summer Reading activities earn points for your team! Winning teams will be announced at Extravaganza on Sunday, August 11.