📚✨ How to Use Beanstack ✨📚

Follow this guide to make your Summer Reading experience seamless! 🌱📖

Track your reading minutes, earn prizes, and stay up to date on all the fun happening during Rapides Parish Library’s Summer Reading Program. Whether you’re reading... at home, by the pool, or on the go, Beanstack makes it easy to grow your reading all summer long! ☀️🌻

👉 Sign up here: https://rpl.beanstack.com/reader365

📱 You can also download the Beanstack app and search for Rapides Parish Library to get started!

🔬⚙️ Summer Camp: STEM in Action! ⚙️🔬

📍 Main Library
📅 July 13 – July 17
⏰ 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (daily)

Get ready to think big, build bigger, and explore the world of STEM! 👀🚀

This hands-on camp is packed with fun, creativity, and ...discovery:

📦 Design and build cardboard creations
🧪 Experiment with science and chemistry
🧴 Make your own cleaning and skincare products
💡 Solve challenges and bring your ideas to life

It’s all about learning by doing—and having a blast while you’re at it! 🤯✨

👥 Open to ages 12–17

⚠️ Space is limited—registration required
👉 https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=341149

📞 Contact 318-445-2411 for more information

#MainLibrary #STEMCamp #SummerCamp #HandsOnLearning #CreativeTeens #LibraryPrograms 🔬✨

📚☀️ Why Is Summer Reading Important? ☀️📚

Did you know students can lose a large portion of what they learned during the school year over summer break? This is called the “Summer Slide” or “Summer Learning Loss.” 🌱📖

📉 Students in grades 1–8 can lose... up to 34% of what they learned the previous school year
➗ 25–34% of math gains are lost on average
📚 17–28% of literacy gains are lost on average
👩‍🏫 Over half of 18 million students studied experienced learning loss for 5 consecutive summers
⏳ By the end of elementary school, students affected by the summer slide can fall nearly 3 years behind peers who continue learning
❓ Only 48% of parents with children ages 6–17 have heard of the summer slide

The good news? Reading during the summer helps keep minds active, builds confidence, strengthens literacy skills, and encourages a lifelong love of learning. 🌻✨

That’s why Rapides Parish Library’s Summer Reading Program is so important—helping kids, teens, and adults stay engaged, curious, and growing all summer long! 🌱📚

🌱📚 Plant a Seed, Read! 📚🌱

Rapides Parish Library Summer Reading is blossoming! 🌼✨

Starting June 1, readers of all ages can log their reading minutes and earn exciting prizes all summer long! 🎉📖

🌱 Summer Reading runs June 1 – July 31
📚 ...Track your reading minutes in Beanstack
🏆 Earn prizes while you read and grow

Sign up now so you’re ready to start reading for Summer Reading! Let’s make this summer bloom with books, fun, and adventure! 🌻✨

🚨📚 CAUGHT IN THE ACT! 📚🚨

A suspicious reader was spotted deep in the stacks at the Libuse Branch… completely absorbed in a book 👀📖

📍 Libuse Branch

🔍 Suspected of:
Choosing books over movies every single time

⚠️ WARNING: ALWAYS ...THINKS THE BOOKS ARE BETTER!

Witnesses report dramatic page turning, intense focus, and strong opinions about movie adaptations 😏🎬📚

Proceed with caution—this patron may convince YOU to read the book too!

#LibuseBranch #GetCaughtReading #LibraryLife #CaughtReading #BookLovers 📚✨

📚✨ From the Pages to the People ✨📚

Join us for a powerful and inspiring event celebrating local voices, storytelling, and community! 💛✊

📍 Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch
📅 Saturday, May 30
⏰ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

📖 Meet talented local Black... authors
🗣️ Hear their stories and creative journeys
✍️ Learn about their writing processes
📚 Discover new books + grab signed copies

✨ Featuring:
Candy Christophe • Jamar Gailes • Anita Watson • Gloria Boyd Williams • Cheron Holland

📚 Featured titles include:
You Can Have Both series • Loving 42 • My Dog “Chop Chop” • Cindy Takes the Wind • The Bully: Carmen & Artela • Snow Day

Connect, celebrate, and be inspired by the voices in our community 🌍✨

Come be part of this meaningful celebration of culture, creativity, and unity 💫

📞 For more information, call 318-445-3912

#MLKBranch #LocalAuthors #CommunityVoices #LibraryPrograms 📚✨