Welcome to our 2023 Summer Reading Program
May 25-July 29, 2023
Click the appropriate age group for program information.
Thank you to our generous sponsors and donors!
Greg and Marsha Renn
Children
Weekly Activities
Note: Children’s programs will not meet during the Wheat Festival, July 12-15)
Mondays — visit the Library for a Weekly Challenge
Tuesdays — Stay & Play @ 10:30am (not on June 6 so all can attend the Zoo program)
— National Explorers (Grades 2-5), 2nd and 4th Tuesdays @ 4:30pm
Wednesdays — Raising Readers Storytime & Craft @ 10:30am
— Play Doh Nights @ 4:30pm
Thursdays — Special Afternoon Programs, check the calendar for details
Fridays — Puzzling Puzzles come-and-go from 10am-4pm
Saturdays — PJ Storytime & Craft (1st Saturday of the month) @ 10am
Special Events
Sedgwick County Zoo “All Together Now!” — June 6 @ 11am at the Raymond Frye Complex
Stuffed Animal Workshops — June 22 and July 20 @ 4:30pm. $5 materials fee. Pre-registration required!
Collaborative Quilt Collage — pick up a coloring sheet from the library, color it and we’ll assemble it into a paper quilt.
Library Booth at Picnic in the Park during the Kansas Wheat Festival on July 12
Bookmark Design Contest — July 13 judging
Edible Book Contest — July 13 judging
Book List
Unicorn and Yeti series by Heather Aryis Burnell
Pete the Cat: Rocking Field Day by Kimberly Dean
My Weird School: Teamwork Trouble by Dan Guteman
The Bad Seed Goes to the Library by Jory John
Tiny Tales: Shell Quest by Steph Waldo
Racing the Waves by Jane Yolen
Youth (ages 13-18)
Special Events
Puzzling Puzzles come-and-go on Fridays from 10am-4pm
Collaborative Quilt Collage — pick up a coloring sheet from the library, color it and we’ll assemble it into a paper quilt.
Library Booth at Picnic in the Park during the Kansas Wheat Festival on July 12
Edible Book Contest — July 13 judging
Bookmark Design Contest — July 13 judging
Book List
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
The One and Only Bob by Katherinen Applegate
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes
Hello, Universe by Kelly Entrada
Wink by Rob Harrell
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Shelter by Christie Matheson
No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen
White Bird by R.J. Palacio
Summer of Brave by Amy Noelle Parks
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Just Under the Clouds by Melissa Sarno
Roll With It by Jamie Sumner
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
Other Words for Home by Jessica Warga
Adults 19+
Weekly Activities
Mondays — Pick up Weekly Challenge and complete to win a prize
Fridays — Puzzling Puzzles come-and-go from 10am-4pm
Special Events
Collaborative Quilt Collage — pick up a coloring sheet from the library, color it and we’ll assemble it into a paper quilt.
Salad & Series — July 10 @ 6pm “Sunflower Journeys”
Library Booth at Picnic in the Park during the Kansas Wheat Festival on July 12
Bookmark Design Contest — July 13 judging
Edible Book Contest — July 13 judging
Book List – YA
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Himawari House by Harmony Becker
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
The Gilded One by Namina Forna
The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He
Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the … by Steve Sheinkin
Jackpot by Nic Stone
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Book List – Adult
The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
Cut and Run by Fern Michaels
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
Same Beach, Next Year by Dorothea Benton Frank
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman