Yarn Storm, Chalk Mural, Buzz On Bees: Wayland Library Week

WAYLAND, MA — Here's what's happening at the Wayland library over the week of July 22, 2024.

ADULT SERVICES

Book Club in a Bag
Instead of trying to round up copies of your next book club selection, grab one of our bags stocked with popular titles. The latest additions are Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. Each sturdy tote has 7-10 copies of each book and circulates for six weeks—ample time to read. Search our catalog for “Wayland book club in a bag” to see the other great selections.

Plan Your Vacation with the Library
If you prefer a guidebook to hold in your hand, we have a terrific selection on our Travel shelves. If digital is your thing, Lonely Planet guides are now always available on Libby. And Hoopla has a bunch of LPs and Fodors. (Fordor’ses?) Don’t forget to use our scanner for your important travel documents. Wherever you’re going, we can help you get there.

Staff Favorites
Here are some of the books, new and not, that we’ve enjoyed lately.

FICTION
The Adversary / Michael Crummey
Babel / R.F. Kuang
Cold Sassy Tree / Olive Ann Burns
Exit Strategy / Martha Wells
Fight Night / Miriam Toews
Frozen River / Ariel Lawhon
Funny Story / Emily Henry
Harold / Steven Wright
Harrow the Ninth / Tamsyn Muir
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store / James McBride
Hello Beautiful / Napolitano
Horse / Geraldine Brooks
James / Percival Everett
Killers of a Certain Age / Deanna Raybourn
The Last Time I Lied / Riley Sager
The Little Liar / Mitch Albom
The Lost Summers of Newport / Williams, Willig & White
Morning Star / Pierce Brown
The Narrowboat Summer / Anne Youngson
North Woods / Daniel Mason
The Phoenix Crown / Quinn and Chang
Queenie / Candace Carty-Williams
Rednecks / Taylor Brown
The Silent Patient / Alex Michaelides
This is Happiness / Niall Williams
The Vulnerables / Sigrid Nunez
Waste of a Life / Simon Brett
The Whalebone Theater / Joanna Quinn
Wild Swans / Jung Chang
The Women / Kristin Hannah

NON-FICTION
The Bright Ages / Gabriele and Perry
But I Live / Ed. Charlotte Schallie
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden / Zhuqing Li
Destiny Disrupted / Tamim Ansary
Dinners with Ruth / Nina Totenberg
Mao's America / Xi Van Fleet
Rulebreaker: the life and times of Barbara Walters / Susan Page
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry / Ingall and McCarthy
Under the Banner of Heaven / Jon Krakauer

YOUTH SERVICES

SUMMER READING

Our 2024 Summer Reading Program Read, Renew, Repeat has started. Programming highlights include making a Chain Reaction “Rube Goldberg machine” with teaching artist Jay Mankita, a family concert with Rolie Polie Guacamole, as well as many fun craft and STEM challenges. Kids can track their reading online or on paper logs to earn tickets for prizes. Teen programming highlights include yarn storming and Mexican metal tooling. Teens can also track their reading to earn tickets for prizes.

Register for the kids Summer Reading Program and the Teen Summer Reading Program online at WaylandLibrary.Beanstack.org

The Massachusetts Statewide Summer Library Program is funded by the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Additional funding for Wayland’s Summer Reading program came from the Friends of the Wayland Public Library, the Wayland Cultural Council, and the Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation.

FOR BABIES, TODDLERS AND PRESCHOOLERS

Outdoor Baby & Toddler Storytime with Ms. Abby
Our Baby & Toddler program moves outside! Weather permitting, we will meet outside on the green lawn. Please register. Tuesdays, July 23, and July 30 at 10:30 a.m.

Music, Story, Fun! with Ms. Janet
Join Ms. Janet for a musical storytime. She’ll bring her ukulele, rainbow bells, and puppets! We will meet in the Children’s Room. For ages birth through age 4, with caregivers. Please register. Thursday, July 25 at 10:30 a.m.

FOR ELEMENTARY AGE CHILDREN

Art Club & Creative Writing
Do you like to write and illustrate your own stories? In this class, led by Wayland parent Emily Kristofek, students will compose a fictional story around a theme, and create one or more pictures to illustrate the story. We will share and celebrate our creations at the end of each class. For children ages 9 and up. Please register HERE. Tuesday, July 23, at 4:30 p.m.

Chain Reactions with Jay Mankita of Playful Engineers
Jay Mankita of Playful Engineers will present this workshop in which children will design, build and test Rube Goldberg machines and other chain reactions! For ages 4 & up, with caregiver. Meets on the lawn, weather permitting. Please register HERE. Wednesday, July 24, at 3:00 p.m.

Build a Rubber Band Race Car
Join Ms. Abby to learn how to use recycled materials to create a speedy, rubber band-powered race car! Participants will leave with their own car to race at home. For children in grades 1 through 3, with caregiver. Please register HERE. Thursday, July 25, at 3:30 p.m.

Collaborative Outdoor Chalk Mural
Mexican artist Diego Rivera painted murals on building walls all over Mexico! Ms. Abby will read Diego Rivera: His World and Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh. Then we will create our own sidewalk chalk mural outside to represent what we love in nature. For children in grades 1 through 3, with caregiver. Please register HERE. Wednesday, July 31, at 3:30 p.m.

All About Bees with Sudbury Bees
Sophia Trevino of Sudbury Bees will read a story about bees, show children a beehive observatory and honey wax, and share some of the fascinating details of a bee’s life! Children will then paint a beehive, using bubble wrap and tempura paint. For ages 4 and up, with caregiver. Please register HERE. Thursday, August 1, at 3:30 pm.

FOR TEENS

Yarn Storming
Teens! Join us for a two-session yarn storming experience. We will beautify the library’s chain-link fence by wrapping it in colorful yarn. Session 1 will be devoted to designing and in Session 2 we will install the art on the fence. For teens in grades 6 and up. Session 1 meets in the Teen Loft and Session 2 meets outside. Please register HERE. Tuesdays, July 23 and July 30 at 4:00 p.m.

TWO MORE VIRTUAL YOUTH AUTHOR TALKS IN JULY
Elizabeth Acevedo. In this exciting author conversation, Acevedo will provide a short reading from her novel-in-verse, The Poet X. Virtual: Register. Tuesday, July 23, at 2 p.m.
Dan Santat. This year’s winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature inspires tweens and teens to tell their own stories through graphic novels. Virtual: Register. Tuesday, July 30, at 2 p.m.