XP Reading Marathon
Complete Missions. Earn Points. Climb to the Top.
A challenge for everyone – complete missions, discover new authors, try new genres and win prizes along the way!
XP Reading Marathon
CAN YOU REACH THE TOP LEVEL?
Join us this October for our XP Reading Marathon for the chance to become a Master Reader and win a variety of amazing prizes based on how many points you earn.
How to play: start at Level 1. Complete Missions. Earn Experience Points. Unlock Rewards. Climb the levels to the top. Become a Master Reader
Earn points by reading books, completing challenges, attending bonus XP events. The more points you collect the higher you evolve – unlocking more missions and cooler prizes.
Join at the desk to collect your personal score card to help collect points.
The XP Reading Marathon starts October 5th until December 14th.
MEET THE HEROS
The Astronaut
About: Left earth with one book and made it last his three year journey. Now he reads anything to fill the silence between the stars – instructions, manuals, cereal boxes… etc. The astronaut loves to read because he believes every book is a small planet you can land on in your imagination.
Strengths: Endurance – can read for hours without losing focus
Weakness: Gets lost in pictures – one good illustration and twenty minutes vanishes
The Robot
About: Built to sort books but learned to love them instead. Reads with careful, whirring attention and always finishes what they start. Files every story they read in a special memory drawer marked “KEEP”.
Strengths: Never skips a page – not even the acknowledgements.
Weakness: Doesn’t understands jokes yet – comedic books take twice as long to read
The Witch
About: Learned everything she knows from books; which is why she is so good at potions and spells. She most likes to read at night next to candlelight as she finds it very relaxing. She loves learning new words to add to her vocabulary – she is the best speller on the team.
Strengths: Brilliant at reading aloud – voices, cackles, the works
Weakness: Only reads one genre if you let her – she is yet to discover the magic of different genres
The Android
About: Discovered a battered old adventure book in a scrapyard and has been chasing the feeling ever since. Reads super fast, then reads it all again but slower. Collects favourite sentences the way other people collect figurines.
Strength: Speed – can power through a chapter while others are finding their bookmark
Weakness: Reads so quickly they have to go back and check what happened again.
- XP Reading Marathon is available to children and young adults up to the age of 16, who are members of Lincs Inspire Libraries
- Entrants can register for a library card for free online, and collect in branch (children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian over the age of 16 to complete registration)
- XP Reading Marathon runs from 5th October to 14th December at Cleethorpes, Grimsby (Freshney Place), Immingham and Waltham Libraries
- Entrants can register at any of the aforementioned branches.
- One score card maximum per library customer.
- The winner will be chosen at random.
- The winner will be notified by email or telephone.
- The winner will be notified twice and if they do not respond within 7 days of the second email/phone call, then they will have forfeited the prize and another winner will be selected at random.
- The prize is non-transferable, non-exchangeable.
- The winner of the prize draw may be required to participate in publicity and photographs. By entering this challenge and the prize draw, parents/guardians agree to this and to the publishing of their child’s name on our website and in any other promotional materials.
- Entry to the prize draw is free and no purchase is necessary.
- Events may occur that render the prize draw itself or the awarding of the prize impossible due to reasons beyond our reasonable control and, accordingly, we may at our absolute discretion, vary or amend or cancel the prize draw, refuse to award the prize to anyone in breach of the terms and conditions, and you agree that we shall have no liability as a result thereof.
- Correspondence relating to the prize draw will not be entered into.
- We will own the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in all entries to the prize draw and in consideration of us allowing your entry to the prize draw, you hereby irrevocably and with full title guarantee assign to us all such rights.
- These terms and conditions are governed by English law.
