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Book Week Bingo for YA Readers



Book Week Bingo for YA Readers

Think you can beat the Georges River Libraries Children and Youth Services team to read across the CBCA Book Week notables list for Older Readers*? Join the Beanstack Book Week Bingo challenge to start reading across the notables list for your chance to win prizes!

Cost: Free
Age: High school students (Year 7 – Year 12)

About CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers

*Entries in this category are for young people aged between 13 and 18 years (secondary school level). Readers require a degree of maturity to appreciate the themes and scope of emotional involvement. Books in this category may be fiction, drama, illustrated text, poetry or graphic novels.

How it works

  • Join Beanstack and register using your Georges River Libraries’ Library Card Number (Borrower ID). You will also be required to create a Beanstack account with a username and password if you haven’t already.
  • Sign up to the Book Week Bingo Challenge
  • Start reading! Each book you read from the bingo card earns you one entry to the grand prize draw. Complete a bingo (one row) and receive a bookish enamel pin prize!

Plus! Receive bonus entries to the major prize draw if you can beat our Children and Youth Services team to finish five titles, or for submitting a review of a book you read! More details in the challenge Terms and Conditions.

Titles eligible for logging

Explore the titles on the 2025 Book Week Bingo for YA Readers bingo card by clicking the tiles below.



Meet the CYS Team

Throughout the duration of the Book Week Bingo challenge, the Children and Youth Services (CYS) Team will also be attempting to read all the notables between them. If you can get a bingo before the CYS team can fill an entire bingo card, you get an extra entry to the grand prize draw!

Morgan can read multiple books on the go, but only if they’re different enough in subject matter. She is ready to be the driving force to ensure the CYS team emerge victorious!

Morgan will be reading:

  • A Wreck of Seabirds
  • I Hope This Doesn’t Find You  ☑Completed 20 May
  • My Brother, Finch ☑Completed 26 May
  • My Family and Other Suspects  ☑Completed 11 July
  • The Skin I’m In
  • White Noise
  • Wrong Answers Only  ☑Completed 13 April

 

Bek has meticulously curated a maxed out holds list on her library account for her next few month’s worth of reading that has not factored in these notable titles, yet is incredibly stubborn and competitive so might still drop everything to read only YA for the next month.

Bek will be reading:

  • A Way Home
  • Birdy ☑Completed 19 April
  • Grace Notes
  • Look Me in the Eye
  • Return to Sender ☑Completed 24 April

 

Ceiridwen either neglects all her responsibilities and reads an entire book in a day, or reads 20 pages in bed, passes out, and has to reread the last 5 the next day because she has no memory of what happened.

Ceiridwen will be reading:

  • Comes the Night ☑Completed 8 May
  • Deep is the Fen ☑Completed 28 May
  • Liar’s Test  ☑Completed 16 April
  • The Invocations ☑Completed 9 July
  • The Sweetness Between Us ☑Completed 9 July
  • Kate Forsyth’s Long-Lost Fairy Tales ☑Completed 10 July
  • Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This) ☑Completed 23 July

 

Erina can finish an audiobook in a day, but struggle for a month with a paperback. She will try to read all the books on her TBR and then be distracted by a new shiny title.

Erina will be reading:

  • A Hunger of Thorns  ☑Completed 13 April
  • Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret  ☑Completed 23 April
  • I’m Not Really Here
  • Into the Mouth of the Wolf
  • Let’s Never Speak of This Again 📖Currently reading
  • Thunderhead