Readers
Take a Beanstack Challenge and get reading! For All Ages
Join a reading challenge on Beanstack!
Beanstack is an interactive, digital platform to track your reading, complete activities, and win prizes while engaging with your library and community!
Beanstack is available from your app store or you can login online at thelosc.beanstack.org. Register the whole family and track reading both together or individually. Find and write book reviews, trending next reads, and more. You can even share a challenge code with a friend or family member to compete for bragging rights.
You’ll find fun and challenge yourself intellectually with Beanstack!
Just for Teen & Young Adult Readers
Teens & young adult readers up to age 26 have free, unlimited, on-demand access to books commonly banned in schools and libraries, through a partnership of public libraries in America.
Get a free library card from:
- Brooklyn Public Library
- Boston Public Library
- LA County Library
- San Diego Public Library
- The Seattle Public Library
Publishing house HarperCollins has a dedicated website to all things Young Adult called Epic Reads.
Find books based on titles you’ve already read (and liked), subject or theme, and more. Enter giveaways, take quizzes, and find cover reveals for upcoming titles from the HarperCollins author lineup.
Publishing house Simon & Schuster produces SimonTeen (also known as Riveted by SimonTeen). It offers YA books to read (FREE), blogs about new books and authors coming to a library/ store near you, and offers giveaways for new and upcoming titles. It’s free to join but you need an account to access the free reads.
Can’t decide what to read next?
Check out these resources for read-a-likes, what’s next in the series, or see what others are reading.
Book Discussion Groups
Libraries of Stevens County provides meeting space and/or facilitation for book groups in our area. Newcomers welcome!
Book Club in a Bag
A Book Club in a Bag kit contains everything your book group needs to enjoy reading and discussing your next book.
Novelist
Novelist is a great fiction database that provides reviews, annotations, and more in our Digital Library.
Check out Downloadable Options for All Ages
Find over 14,000+ titles, from bestsellers to classics to book club recommendations and more! Browse librarian-curated lists, monthly themes, and more – on eBook and eAudiobook!