100 Pts

Adult SR 2024 - Historic Downtown Billings Walking Tour

Welcome to BPL's Adult Summer Reading Walking Tour Adventure.  When you complete this mission, you will earn the Walking Tour badge and up to 160 points for your Adult Summer Reading raffle tickets.  Here's how it works: 

1) Start by looking at the historic photo and clue under "Location #1" in the mission activities. 

2) Locate the building shown, take a new photo of it, and upload your photo to the activity. Each completed uploaded photo awards an extra 5 points. 

3) Move to the next Location in the activity list, and follow the photo and clue to Location #2. Repeat Step 2 for this location by taking a photo and uploading it. 

4) Once you've found any combination of 10 Locations and/or our BONUS photo clue (worth an additional 10 points) and uploaded your present day photos for the buildings, you've completed your mission!

Some tips: 

Our clues include some directional guidelines.  Feel free to use these!

The clues are designed to lead you from place to place, but you can finish the mission in one walk, or a little at a time over the course of Adult Summer Reading.  Be sure to finish the mission by July 20th, though.

Most important: While we would love to have your 2024 photos be as close as possible to the historic ones, please take care and be safe while taking them!  For instance, you don't need step off the sidewalk to more closely approximate photos originally taken in the street.  Just get as close as you can.

Have fun exploring historic downtown Billings!

Adult SR 2024 Complicated Book Club

Adult SR 2024: Billings Commuter Challenge

Adult SR 2024: Catch the Bus

Take on a new adventure with a trip on the MET bus! Pick up a day pass from the library's 2nd floor help desk and take a trip somewhere you would normally drive. 

Adult SR 2024: Soiled Undies

25 Pts

GBBH 2024 July Challenge: Adventure Begins at Your Library

July Challenge: Adventure Begins at Your Library.  For July, we are echoing our Summer Reading 2024 theme and challenging you to find a literary adventure!

Will it be an action-filled novel by Lee Child, Clive Cussler, or Nevada Barr?  A stirring true tale like "The Wager" by David Grann or "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed? An urban fantasy by Jim Butcher, Laurel K. Hamilton, or Patricia Briggs?  Maybe a science fiction epic like "The Expanse" series by James S.A. Corey? Choose your own, and then tell us all about it!

Complete this mission between July 1st - 31st to be eligible for July's prize drawing!

Kids Challenge Week 1 - The Adventure Begins

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Kids Challenge Week 2 - Reading Is Naturally Fun!

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Kids Challenge Week 3 - Camp Read S'More

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Kids Challenge Week 4 - Reading Takes You Out of This World

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Kids Challenge Week 5 - Reading Takes You Places

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Kids Challenge Week 6 - Midnight Library

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Kids Challenge Week 7 - Score with a Good Book

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

200 Pts

Level Up: Teen Gaming JUNE

Pre-Readers Challenge Week 1 - The Adventure Begins

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Pre-Readers Challenge Week 2 - Reading is Naturally Fun!

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Pre-Readers Challenge Week 3 - Camp Read S'More

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Pre-Readers Challenge Week 4 - Reading Takes You Out of This World

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Pre-Readers Challenge Week 5 - Reading Takes You Places

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Pre-Readers Challenge Week 6 - Midnight Library

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

Pre-Readers Challenge Week 7 - Score with a Good Book

Take part in the Mission Challenge.  When you complete each Activity you will receive 20 points. You do not have to finish all Activities in the Mission, but if you complete all 10 Activities you will receive a badge for finishing the whole Mission and receive an extra 100 points!

300 Pts

Teen C.R.A.F.T. Mission