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Community - Summer Reading Program

Read Your Way to Tropicana Field!


Reading with the Rays

Reading with the Rays is a program that encourages students to keep reading throughout the summer. The Rays Baseball Foundation has partnered with the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper in Education program to devise a fun plan that will help keep kids motivated to read over the summer. The libraries in Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco and Pinellas counties play a major role in this program.

The students may pick up a game card at their local library in these counties to participate. Each time they reach a base they return to the library to pick up their prize. When they reach home plate they receive a ticket to a Rays home game! The student needs to read a total of 24 hours to receive all the prizes. Here is a breakdown of hours to each base and the prize:

  • First Base - Sunburst Tattoo
  • Second Base - Evan Longoria Reading with the Rays Poster
  • Third Base - Rays Slap Bracelet
  • Home Plate - Ticket to a Rays Game*

Readers can blog about their favorite books by logging on to blogs.tampabay.com/nie. Just click on the "2011 Reading with the Rays" link.

*The Rays game ticket is to be chosen from pre-selected dates and based upon availability