Garden City Public Library

Not a quiet library

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6015 Glenwood Street | Garden City, ID 83714 | Phone: 208-472-2942
| Text: 208-745-2898
Hours: Mon & Fri, 9:30am – 5:30pm | Tue – Thu, 9:30am – 8pm | Sat, 10am – 4pm

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Extreme Book Nerd Challenge

Come into the library to pick up your Extreme Book Nerd folder with printed logs, instructions, a bookmark, and a pen.

Guidelines:

  • The Extreme Book Nerd Challenge runs January 3rd – December 19th, 2023
  • Registration is required.  Please fill out the registration slip provided in your EBN folder and return it to the library or register online through our website.
  • For adults 18 years or older.
  • One category per book, for a total of 50 books in 50 weeks, to be read by December 19th. You cannot use the same book for multiple categories.
  • All books read for the challenge need to be recorded under each category with title and author.
  • Reading logs can be a spreadsheet, journal, typed list, or provided reading logs. Make sure your name, library card number, and e-mail is on the log.
  • You can turn logs into the library or e-mail them to: programs@gardencitylibrary.org
  • Books read from other reading programs (i.e. Summer Reading) can count towards this challenge as long as they fit into a category.
  • Books at a junior/teen fiction level are acceptable. Picture books/easy readers are not accepted.
  • Participants who finish and turn in a log by December 20th, 2023 will receive a prize. One prize per patron.
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This website and program are brought to you by the Idaho Commission for Libraries and made possible, in part, by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

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