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Reading Merit Badge Worksheet

Requirement 1
Show that you have read twelve books as approved by your Counselor within the past year (not more than three
of these from school outside reading requirements). The twelve books should include at least one each from three
of the following classifications – fiction, adventure, Scouting, biography, technical or scientific reading, travel,
poetry, or books on hobbies.

# Book Title Book Author Genre Classification School

Required
Reading?
1  Yes  No
2  Yes  No
3  Yes  No
4  Yes  No
5  Yes  No
6  Yes  No
7  Yes  No
8  Yes  No
9  Yes  No
10  Yes  No
11  Yes  No
12  Yes  No

Requirement 2
Indicate places in your community, province, or city from which you may borrow, rent, or purchase books. Name at least 2 places.

Place Borrow or Purchase? Place Borrow or Purchase?

 Present a library card or other evidence to show how you secure the books in Requirement 1.

Requirement 3
Develop a satisfactory bibliography from public or school library index, from publisher’s catalogs, government list or other sources,
on one of your hobbies or specialist interest, and include at least two of these among the twelve books read in Requirement 1.

Book Number Bibliography

Corresponding to
Requirement 1

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Requirement 4
List the books you own and how you acquired them. (You do not need to complete all the boxes below, if you purchased books to
satisfy Requirement 1, list them here as well).

Title Author How Acquired?

Requirement 5
Report on newspaper or news magazines you read. Use the space below to complete your report.

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Requirement 6
Be a subscriber or a regular reader of a magazine for at least the preceding six months.

Magazine 1 (Required)

What magazine did you subscribe to or a

regular reader of?

How many issues of the magazine have How many issues (total) are there by the
you read? magazine in the last six months?

Magazine 2 (Optional)

What magazine did you subscribe to or a

regular reader of?

How many issues of the magazine have How many issues (total) are there by the
you read? magazine in the last six months?

Magazine 3 (Optional)

What magazine did you subscribe to or a

regular reader of?

How many issues of the magazine have How many issues (total) are there by the
you read? magazine in the last six months?

Requirement 7
 Do any one of the following:

 Locate and deliver reading matter to some shut-in or sick person.

 Help someone find books on his hobby.
 Render service to your school or public library.
 Perform some other similar service.

Date when any one of the above was performed: ____________________.

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