Monthly Archives: October 2025

To ban a book is to fear its magic.

It’s Banned Books Week and while we aren’t doing anything specifically for the week, we have come up with a challenge for the month. Do you want to encourage more reading and also get entered to win 2 tickets to Yule Ball? Let’s stock those free little libraries around town with more reading material!

The challenge:

Donate a book (or more) to a local Free Little Library for House Points and entry/entries for Yule Ball tickets.

Rules for entry:

Donate a book and take a pic of you doing so for 1 House Point and 1 entry.

Donate a BANNED Book and post a pic of you doing so for 5 House Points and 5 entries.

Donate an LGBTQ+ or other inclusive book that isn’t on the banned books list and post a pic of you doing so for 3 House Points and 3 entries.

Dress as a witch or wizard while donating and we’ll give you a bonus 5 House Points and entries.

You can donate up to 3 books for points through October 31. (this means you can earn up to 30 House Points and 30 entries)

Post pics and tag us either on FB or IG and use #SPEWWBannedBooksChallenge and include your Hogwarts House. You’ll gain points for your House, which we’ll tally up at the end of the month, and entry/entries for Yule Ball tickets.

You can still join the challenge if you don’t live in the area and can’t come to the ball. Donate a book to your local Free Little Library to encourage more reading in your neighborhood. You will still get House Points and the magical feeling of putting more books in the world.

We will draw a winner on November 1 at noon PST and also announce the House Cup winner.

And don’t forget that we’ll be doing our Blind Date With A (Magic) Book event on Friday.