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Youth Read 2013

Youth Read 2013

Ready...Set...READ!


It's finally time to read - or draw - or write - or paint - or whatever, and win!

Youth Read is our online summer reading program for teens, ages 13 to 17.

Here's how it works:

Every week beginning right now we’ll post a series of challenges — all you have to do is complete one each week to be eligible for the grand prize draw. One will always be a reading challenge; the others will let you show off your creative side. Every challenge you complete gets you another entry in the weekly draws, and entries that are especially creative or amazing will be chosen by our judges for each week's Top Ten.

Prizes:

  • Grand prize: $250, $150, and $75 gift cards to Cadillac Fairview malls (Chinook & Market Mall)
  • Weekly prizes: Ten free books every week, plus $25 gift cards for the Top Ten and for the reading challenge!
  • Bonus prizes: one challenge every week comes with a sweet extra prize attached.
  • Special prize: Tell a friend and you could each win a $50 gift card! Registration continues all summer so keep telling your friends - and remind them to put your name when we ask where they found out about the program.

register here

From the Gallery

why horses dont have a horn on there nose

Week 1: Easy Does It
by harry on Youth Read 2013

one day thee lived a horse and like all other horses back then he had a horn on his nose. this pecific horse was named unicorn. unicorn always bragged how his horn was cooler than anything of the animals. one day sabertooth, mammoth and lots of other animals tried to trick him so then he would never brag again.so mammoth the biggest of the animals went to unicorn and said"if youre not afraid of a fight then come to the rock at midnight". unicorn knew  the animals would call him a coward if he didnt accept so he said'i accept'. all the animals and unicorn knew he didnt stand a chance. so at midnight when unicorn was having the fight at the tip of mount razor unicorn made mammoth so angry he charged but unicorn moved out of the way. mammoth fell and fell razors cut his hairy body and thats why mammoths/elephants dont have hair.the animals had to trie something else. they were desperate so they sent... porcpine. porcupine was very cunning because he had nothing on his back and was camoflouged. they sent porcupine right straight for unicorn but again unicorn heard them overtalking so he took a bunch of needles and threw them at porcupine and thats why porcupines have needles on here back. this time they thought for weeks and finally they thought of a plan. when unicorn was walking down a path. they quickly painted a cave on a rock. so when unicorn went he hit the wall and finally his horn broke and thats why horses dont have horns.the end. also i read for 84 hours.