Oshawa library has plenty of prizes for teen readers this summer

Summer may be all about getting out and enjoying the outdoors to some, but the Oshawa Public Library has different plans – kicking off the season with a summer teen reading program which officially begins on the 5th of July.

To join the program, teens in the City of Oshawa have to drop by at any of the library’s four branches to get a game card, which allows them to score points by reading books, magazines, even check out other forms of media like CDs, DVDs, and video games. The contest runs until the 29^th of August, with extra points still up for grabs by joining library activities and writing reviews on books and other media from the Oshawa Public Library.

Teens can then trade their filled up game cards to a bunch of neat prizes, including tickets to Wonderland and an iPod Touch.

But that’s not all. The library is also holding a YouTube video contest that’s open to kids ages 13 to 19. The contest, which runs from the 2^nd of July until the 31^st of August, invites local youths to create and upload videos of them reading and mentioning “Oshawa Public Libraries.”