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Rules and Guidelines
How to Register and Log Challenges
The Challenges
Reading Challenges
November (Submit by December 4th)
Basic Challenge: Read a book that focuses on food or where food plays a major role.
Advanced Challenge: Read a book with recipes in it.
Cookbooks do not count for either the basic or advanced Challenge.
December (Submit by January 4th)
Basic Challenge: Read a book that features a winter holiday (Diwali, Thanksgiving, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day).
Advanced Challenge: Read a book that features a winter holiday you do not celebrate. May not be the same holiday featured in the book you read for the basic challenge.
January (Submit by February 4th)
Basic Challenge: Read the first book in a series.
Advanced Challenge: Read the second book in the same series.
February (Submit by March 4th)
Basic Challenge: Read a book featuring a historical event that took place in the United States during the winter.
Advanced Challenge: Read a book featuring a historical event that took place outside the United States during the winter.
Non-Reading Challenges (Submit by March 4th)
1. Take out a craft book and complete a craft (send us a picture of the book and the craft at readerservices@eastmeadow.info).
2. Take out and watch a movie that takes place during the winter.
3. Make a food featured in the book you read for one of the November challenges using a cookbook from the library or a recipe in the book you read for the advanced challenge. (Send us the recipe you used and a picture of your dish at readerservices@eastmeadow.info).
4. Attend our Local Author Festival on November 14th between 1-4. (Submit Event Ticket)