JAY — The Jay-Niles Memorial Library will host a visit from children’s and young adult author Anne Sibley O’Brien as part of the teen summer reading program. O’Brien will be at the library at 6:30p.m. Monday, July 19.

O’Brien, who lives on an island off the coast of Maine, has illustrated 25 picture books, a number of which have been part of a collaboration with other authors such as Margy Burns Knight. She has also worked with Juanita Havill on “Jamaica’s Find” and six other Jamaica books. O’Brien has also illustrated a number of her own books including two retellings of Korean tales: “The Princess and the Beggar” and “The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea.”

Her visit to the Jay-Niles Memorial Library will focus on her new young adult book, “After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance,” a collaboration with her son Perry Edmond O’Brien. The book contains 15 highly readable portraits of social activists. The author visit will focus in part on Wangari Maathai and the Greenbelt Movement, but also on social and environmental activism in general.

While the visit is part of the teen summer reading program, the public is welcome to attend as well. The visit and discussion will be geared to those age 11 and older.