Our reading challenges take place on Beanstack, a free website and app for logging your reading. Head to dracutlibrary.beanstack.org or get the Beanstack Tracker app to get started.
Minute Madness 2026
We made it past Round 2 this year! Losing to the top seed of the bracket (Dartmouth) is nothing to be ashamed of. We logged 127,645 minutes this year, and we did better in Round 3 than everyone except Dartmouth and Holbrook, so it just came down to who we were paired off with. Next year we’ll make it to the Fierce Four…or even all the way!
Thanks for all your hard work in this tournament. We hope to see you practicing hard in the off season. 😉💪📚
Round 1 March 1 – March 12: Free-for-all round. 16 of the 19 participating communities will advance, while the three who read the least are eliminated.
We finished #8!
Round 2 March 12 – March 19: The 16 remaining libraries have been paired off. We beat Rutland to advance to Round 3! Hooray for our first time getting to Round 3!!!
Round 3 March 19 – March 26: Eight communities compete in four face-offs. Congrats to Dartmouth for beating us this round, knocking us out of the tournament. We put up a good fight!
Round 4 March 26 – April 2: The Fierce Four face off.
Round 5 April 2 – April 9: The Championship round – whoever wins this matchup wins the tournament!
This year’s competitors: Boxford, Dartmouth, Dracut, Grafton, Holbrook, Littleton, Marlborough, Newbury, North Andover, Northampton, Rutland, Sharon, Sudbury, Swansea, Tyngsborough, Uxbridge, Walpole, Waltham, Wilmington
Read It Your Way: 2026 Year-Long Reading Challenge (6th graders – adults)
Join the Dracut 2026 Year-Long Reading Challenge! Log at least one book and one review for a chance to win a prize at the end of the year.
January 1, 2026 – December 31, 2026
Congratulations to our 2025 Year-Long Reading Challenge winner, Kaley V.!
Massachusetts Center for the Book 2026 Reading Challenge
How the challenge works:
- Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge.
- After you read, fill out this form to tell Mass Center for the Book about the book.
- Using their submission manager, you will be able to log in and access the entries you’ve logged throughout the year.
- Dedicated readers will be invited to a year-end celebration hosted by Mass Center for the Book.
- If you read a book in each of the 12 months, you will be entered in a drawing to win 1 of 2 totes filled with books.
- New this year: Mass Center for the Book will be drawing two names on the last day of each month to win a free book! Make sure you get those entries in before the end of the month.
We’ve added the Massachusetts Center for the Book 2026 Reading Challenge to Beanstack to help you keep track, but you don’t have to use Beanstack for this one. Just make sure you’re filling out the linked form to let them know what you’re reading each month. You can find more information at massbook.org/readingchallenge-2
January 1, 2026 – December 31, 2026
Feeling a little lost? Try these video tutorials for using the Beanstack app or the website! Or you can always call or email us at askus@dracutlibrary.org
Info on our Summer Reading Challenges can be found on the Summer Reading webpages for Adults, Teens, and Kids.