The Great Summer Read: Wild card challenge suggestions


This is your chance to set your own Great Summer Read challenge!

We've collected some of the best wild card challenges from last year's competition to give you some inspiration.

Try one of these suggestions, or come up with your own and then tell us about your wild card challenge in the comments section below!
  • Read a complete series.
  • Write a song or poem based on a book you've read.
  • Finish a book, and then rewrite the ending the way you wanted it to go.
  • Read a book selected at random from the shelf.
  • Ask a librarian at your local library for a personal recommendation.
  • Read a book you've lied about already reading!
  • Try a food you've only read about in a book.
  • Read the same book in tandem with your friend.
  • Download an eAudiobook to listen on the go.
  • Read a book in one day.
  • Read a book published the year you were born.
  • Quit all electronic devices for one day and just read.
  • Read a book with at least one map in it.
  • Read a book in a language other than English.
  • Read a book that inspired a play.  For example Auckland Theatre Company’s play, The Miracle Worker, is about the remarkable true life story of Helen Keller.  
  • Read a book or magazine about something you found interesting during a visit to MOTAT, the New Zealand Maritime Museum or any other summer outing to an Auckland attraction.  
Heat up your reading this summer with the Great Summer Read He Pānuitanga Raumati! Dive into our fun reading challenges from 1 December 2019 to 31 January 2020 and be in to win books, designer glasses, eReaders and tickets to Auckland's hottest attractions.

Visit aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/gsr for more.

Comments

  1. If you're a parent, have a digital/technology free weekend, go to the library as a family and each choose a book, then read the stories to your kids (or let them read their own if they're older). Then mix it up with some noise and play games indoors and outdoors as a family.
    If you can time it with a summer camping trip make sure you get some ghost stories to read!

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  2. Listen to an audio book. I listened to Holes by Louis Sachar

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  3. Read a book that's been translated from another language.

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