2024 Children's Summer Reading Club
June 18 - August 17
If you join the Reading Club
Your toes will get tip-tappy
You'll win things and better yet
You will make your mother happy!
-Mr. Mark
Dear Kids:
If you join the summer reading club you'll get to:
a. Play the Plinko board - if you read for 2 1/2 hours a week.
b. Qualify for the grand raffle with a chance to win The Big One - a bicycle, if you read for 24 hours over six weeks.
c. Become really, really smart and boss everyone around - okay the "smart" part is true - the "boss" part is not!
Click here to log your reading:
There's a Reader Zone app for Summer Reading!
Available in the App Store and Google Play
For an overview of how to use Reader Zone, visit the Reader Zone Help Page
Reading and Reporting Dates
Summer Readers can begin logging their reading on June 18.
Reporting Dates: Log online with Reader Zone! Paper logs are also available on request.
Play the Plinko board: Play the Plinko board on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday each week, starting the week of July 8. Simply read two and a half hours Wednesday through Tuesday and log the time on Reader Zone before 11:59pm on Tuesday night to qualify!
Didn't read for two and a half hours? Stop by to chat with Mr. Mark and pick up the weekly prize for the reading you did do!
The Plinko board will be set up outside on the patio (to the right of the book drop) on:
Wednesdays, 2:30-4:30 pm
Thursdays, 3:00-6:00 pm
Fridays, 2:00-3:45 pm
Saturdays, 12:00-1:30 pm
Rain location: Inside the Library, 3rd floor
Plinko board begins on July 10 and ends on August 17.
Summer Activities
Come into the Library for scavenger hunts, puzzles, crafts, and other great challenges!
Summer Take & Make Kits
Available...
June 26: CD windchime
July 10: Standing cardboard animal statues
July 17: Tiny Art Show kit
July 24: Grass heads
July 31: Butterfly suncatcher toy
August 14: Upcycled confetti bookmark
Summer Events
These are just a few of the summer children's events. See the Library calendar for more programs.
Annual Read-a-Thon
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
10:00am-1:00pm at Memorial Park
(Rain location: 3rd Floor of the Library)
For the Read-a-thon you'll get to:
a. Read to raise money for children's programs like animal and music shows
b. Get to eat free pizza and drinks
c. Read live and in-person outdoors!
Directions:
Get pledges from friends and family for each page that you read (ex. $.05 or $.10 cents a page).
Donate to the "Friends of the Maynard Public Library"
**Crucial Announcement**
Donate $10 and win a gift certificate from Erikson's - Donate $50 or more to win three Erikson's certificates.
Click here to download the pledge sheet.
Summer Reading Club Kick-Off Movie Event
Wednesday, June 26
11:00 AM at the Fine Arts Theatre
Get ready, gang. All of the members of our Maynard Public Library Summer Reading Club are invited to the Fine Arts Theatre for an exclusive FREE screening of a first-run motion picture.
If you join the Club, you'll be given elite access to meet in the lobby of the theater at 10:45am and we'll all be viewing the new Pixar film Inside Out Part 2. But don't forget, as soon as the movie's over, it's time to start reading.
Tiny Art Show
3rd Annual Tiny Art Show
Kits available beginning Wednesday, July 17
OR attend an In-person Creating Event:
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Saturday, July 20, 10:30am - 12:30pm
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Tuesday, July 23, 6:00 - 8:00pm
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Monday, July 29, 1:00-4:00pm
All Ages, No registration needed.
Show dates: Saturday, August 3 - Saturday, August 17
Artists' Reception: Tuesday, August 6, 7:00pm
Create artwork no larger than 4" at home or attend one of the three In-person creating events. Return the artwork by 9pm on Tuesday, July 30 for it to be included in a gallery show in the Roosevelt Room.
The Maynard Truck Parade
Wednesday, July 24
11:00am-12:15pm at the Maynard High School Field
(Rain date: August 7)
What are our two favorite things in the world - books and trucks, right? But we can't fit the trucks in the library so you're all invited to the Maynard High School field to view the third annual Truck Parade. We'll all be watching as the fire trucks, rescue vehicles, police cars, dump trucks, diggers, and the most important truck--what am I talking about?--the ice cream truck drive around us in a big procession--a true vehicular vista! Afterwards, we'll all line up behind the two, yes, two ice cream trucks for not just ice cream - FREE ice cream.
End-of-Summer Pool Party & Raffle Extravaganza
Date & Time TBA
At the Thoreau Club
What are our two favorite summer activities? Reading and swimming, of course! At this event you'll have the chance to do both - not at the same time, hopefully.
To celebrate all the great reading everybody did, we're all heading, yes, to the Thoreau Club for our end-of-summer pool party and raffle. We'll take a nice dip in the pool and when we're through swimming, it'll be time for the Final Raffle. Everyone who read for at least 24 hours over the six weeks of the program will qualify and one lucky reader will drive off with the grand prize, the Big One - a bicycle!
More information and registration coming soon.
Many thanks to...
"Read, Renew, Repeat", the Massachusetts Statewide Summer Library Program, is funded by the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. It is also sponsored by the Friends of the Maynard Public Library.
The theme of "Read, Renew, Repeat" and related artwork is provided by iRead and the Illinois Library Association. Artwork used in the Children's program was created by Jason Chin.
Also many thanks to all those who donated prizes for weekly prizes, the Plinko board, and the Final Raffle.