MWCC Libraries have partnered with Mass Center for the Book for the 2025 Reading Challenge! There will be monthly drawings for free books, and a chance to win a tote with books and bookish goodies at the end of the year if you read a book in each of the 12 months. We have bookmarks and postcards with each monthly challenge. Pick one up at the Gardner or Leominster campus library. How the challenge works:

• Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge. January: Read a book published or about the year you were born. Coming up soon in February: Read a book with the name of a city in the title.

• After you read, fill out this reading challenge submission form to tell them about the book.

• For more information visit Mass Center for the Book Reading Challenge Homepage

The February book display theme is "Book Couples"! Each book is paired with similar characters or plots. Stop by the LaChance Library to check one (or two!) of these books out.

1. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) & Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

2. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) & I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)

3. Passing (Nella Larson) & The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)

4. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) & Jazz (Toni Morrison)

5. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) & Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

6. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) & Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)