{"id":16764,"date":"2025-10-27T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16764\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:14:06","slug":"rock-the-winter-2025-winter-reading-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16764\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock the Winter: 2025 Winter Reading Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written by:\u00a0Beth L., Adult Services Librarian<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re tucked into a blanket at home or perched in a chair at the airport, the holiday season is the perfect time to catch up on your reading. This year, the Round Rock Public Library invites you to join our Winter Reading Program.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s simple. From Monday, November 24 to Sunday, January 4, kids, teenagers, and adults alike can log their reading in our online portal, ReadSquared<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And you can read whatever you want! Books, audiobooks, graphic novels, magazines\u2014if it\u2019s got words, it counts. Read a picture book to your grandchild? Log it. Listened to a mystery in the car? Log it. Finally got your hands on a copy of Dog Man<\/a>? Log it!<\/p>\n

Plus, for every minute you read, you\u2019ll earn one point toward a prize. Earn 300 points, and you\u2019ll get to visit our Winter Reading Prize Shop! We\u2019ve got stickers, coupons, and more.<\/p>\n

The Prize Shop opens on Monday, December 1 and closes at 5 PM sharp on Sunday, January 4. Find it at the library\u2019s third floor service desk. Don\u2019t miss out!<\/p>\n

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To kick off the Winter Reading Program, we\u2019ve teamed up with Round Rock Operation Blue Sant<\/a>a to support their annual toy drive.<\/p>\n

Every year, Operation Blue Santa provides toys, food, and gift cards to more than 1,500 individuals in the Round Rock community. We\u2019re proud to support this incredible nonprofit, now celebrating its 47th year in operation. We hope you\u2019ll join us. Bring unused, unwrapped toys to the library between Monday, November 17 and Friday, December 12. Drop them off at our third floor service desk. We\u2019ll pass them along to Operation Blue Santa, where they\u2019ll be wrapped and distributed to families in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by:\u00a0Beth L., Adult Services Librarian Whether you\u2019re tucked into a blanket at home or perched in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-16764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}