If you missed the first week of our summer reading program, don’t despair. There’s still time to join in!

Our first week was aimed at making our environment beautiful by planting flowers to take home.

Our aim for the next five weeks is focused on the theme “Oceans of Possibilities.”

For the younger children, this involves looking at different people and animals who live in or on the ocean environment, including pirates, shellfish, whales and many other interesting creatures.

They will be booked in by their parents or caregivers for a session on Tuesday or Thursdays.

Activities include plant a flower, June 16; make a pirate, June 21 or 23; make an ocean scene, June 28 or 30; penguins, July 12 or 14; designing an edible ocean scene, July 19 or 21; and Oogies Ice Cream, 3 p.m. July 28.

The older children will be looking at types of ocean pollution, cleanups and how this impacts our environment. They will be doing practical experiments and finding out about ways to clean pollution in the ocean.

Their session will be 3 p.m. Thursdays.

Activities include plant a flower, June 16; ocean pollution, June 23; how to clean a body of water and water testing with James Yaochim from public works, June 30; plastic pollution, July 14; what fish need to survive, July 21; and ice cream, July 28.

There will be no programs July 5 or 7.

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NEW BOOKS

Fiction: “The 6:20 Man,” David Baldacci; “Local Gone Missing,” Fiona Barton; “Tom Clancy Zero Hour,” Don Bentley; “The Lioness,” Chris Bohjalian; “The Hidden One,” Linda Castillo; “Listen to Me,” Tess Gerritsen; “The Girl Who Survived,” Lisa Jackson; “A Face To Die For,” Iris Johansen; “The Latecomer,” Jean Hanff Korelitz; “Secrets,” Fern Michaels; “Escape,” James Patterson and David Ellis; “Cold, Cold Bones,” Kathy Reichs; “The House Across the Lake,” Riley Sager; “Suspects,” Danielle Steel; “The It Girl,” Ruth Ware

Nonfiction: “Mean Baby,” Selma Blair; “If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction and Healing,” Kathleen Buhle; “Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories From the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace and More,” James Burrows and Eddy Friedfeld; “Here’s the Deal,” Kellyanne Conway; “The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bill and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation,” Mark Lee Gardner; “Patton’s Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton’s Rise to Glory,” Stephen L. Moore; “James Patterson: The Stories of My Life,” James Patterson

Juvenile: “Stories of Jedi & Sith,” Roseanne A. Brown/Sarwat Chadda/Delilah S. Dawson/Tessa Gratton/Michael Kogge; “Exile From ShadowClan (Warriors Graphic Novel),” Erin Hunter; “Jurassic World Dominion: The Deluxe Junior Novelization,” Random House; “Lightyear: The Deluxe Junior Novelization,” Meredith Rusu; “Skandar and the Unicorn Thief,” A.F. Steadman

Young adult: “Blade Breaker,” Victoria Aveyard; “A Year to the Day,” Robin Benway; “Summer’s Edge,” Dana Mele

Children’s picture books: “Monsters Love Cupcakes,” Mike Austin; “Queen of Kindergarten,” Derrick Barnes and Vanessa Brantley-Newton; “The World Needs More Purple Schools,” Kristin Bell and Benjamin Hart; “Pete the Cat’s Not So Groovy Day (I Can Read Level 1),” James Dean and Kimberly Dean; “The Pout-Pout Fish and the Worry-Worry Whale,” Deborah Diesen; ”Noodle and the No Bones Day,” Jonathan Graziano; “Tractor,” Sally Sutton; “The One and Only Sparkella Makes a Plan (Sparkella #2),” Channing Tatum; “How to Catch a Class Pet,” Alice Walstead and Andy Elkerton