July 2020 HEGGAN HAPPENINGS FOR TEENS AND TWEENS

The Teen TAB Teen Summer Tween & Teen Advisory Board @ Margaret E. Heggan Free Writing Challenge Book Club Public Library presents: The library’s summer reading Join us for a Virtual Tween & Teen Book Discussion Group It’s TAB Virtual program is centered on fairy tales, folklore, and legends. The Artemis Game Time Teen Advisory Board is kicking it up a notch by challenging you to Fowl write your original version of the by Eoin Colfer Cinderella story. Entries will be Thursday, judged by library staff and the Teen July 16 Advisory Board members. at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 21 at 6:00 p.m. Write or draw your own version of the Cinderella tale and send is a party game for This reading group meets to Use Your Words to Librarian Barb at funny people! Laugh your way through discuss popular YA Fiction four different hilarious games! Join us [email protected] on ZOOM. by August 14, 2020. on ZOOM for a thoroughly virtual Game Artemis Fowl is available on Hoopla Time event! and OverDrive. If you are interested in becoming a Come play Use Your Words! Please contact Librarian Barb at Use your smart phone, tablet, or member of the Teen Advisory Board, please contact Librarian Barb at [email protected] computer to play! for more information. [email protected] Please contact Librarian Barb at for more information. [email protected] for more information. VIRTUAL TAB Chapter Chat Join us for a Virtual Teen Book The library is proud to announce its Discussion Group partnership with Beanstack! Heartless Beanstack is an online resource by Marissa Meyer for keeping track of both summer reading, and reading all year round. Thursday, July 23 Using both the Heggan Library Learn a new creative outlet from at 6:00 p.m. Beanstack website and the Beanstack your very own home in our new app, readers can keep a record of Virtual Comic Lab program! These This reading group meets to what they’re reading, take part in videos will explore the different steps discuss popular YA Fiction activities, and write book reviews. involved in writing and drawing a on ZOOM. comic. Videos will be posted on Heartless is available on Hoopla There is a special Summer Reading the library YouTube account as and OverDrive. Challenge for teens in grades 6-12. well as the library website at http:// Please contact Librarian Barb at Registering is easy. It only takes a www.hegganlibrary.org/index. [email protected] few minutes to create an account, and php/virtual-library/comic-jams/. for more information. logging your reads is easy. Lessons will be posted on Tuesdays.

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To Kill a Kingdom Insert Jest, the new court joker who to stick to the source material. One by Alexandra Christo catches Cath’s eye the moment she thing Hollywood does, that the book sees him. Good-looking, mysterious, also does is use color. Review by H. H. The Wizard and completely inappropriate for of is famously the first full color Lira is the princess of the sirens and her, Jest and Cath grow close and movie, barring the Kansas scenes; the most ruthless one of them all – eventually enter a secret courtship. the entire movie is colorful. Similarly, except for her mother, the queen. Will they live their happily ever after, when Baum published his book, he Every year for her birthday she kills or do Wonderland’s magic and insisted that it be printed in color. a prince and keeps his heart. When monsters have another fate in mind? The plot of the book differs from Lira kills one of her own to save a My favorite feature of this novel the movie at several points. From prince, though, her mother punishes was the world. , a fairy the beginning, is content her by turning her into one of the Heartless tale retelling following the Queen in Kansas, although a bit bored, “dreadful” humans. of Hearts, gives Wonderland new understandable since, unlike Prince Elian’s true home is the sea— life in this refreshing take on the Judy Garland, she’s a child in the killing sirens. The siren he really land of Hearts, pre-Alice. The magic book. Once in the country of the wants to kill is the one they call the is widely explored and incredibly , she is presented with Prince’s Bane – Lira. He doesn’t enchanting. The nods to Lewis silver slippers, instead of red ruby know that he has brought that Carroll’s original story are endless. ones, as red shows up better in siren – his worst enemy – aboard backstories for seemingly Technicolor. The book is similar to his ship when he saves a drowning Meyer’s tiny details in the original work add the movie plot after defeating the human girl. He’s suspicious of this dimension and wonder. Aside from witch, except that Dorothy mysterious human girl, but he’s the whimsy, it’s fun to read from gains control of the flying monkeys determined to find a way to end the Cath’s point of view. Her growth through a special hat that lets her sirens for good, and she’s offering to from an innocent dreamer into the use them three times. After the help him. ruthless Queen of Hearts we know wizard goes up in his hot air balloon, This retelling of the Little Mermaid her to be is flawlessly done, and Dorothy and her group go on was funny, although dark at times. readers will leave this world with another journey to the Good Witch Lira is not innocent like Ariel, but more love for Wonderland than ever of the South, who she hasn’t already she does have motivation and before. met. The Good Witch sends her character. Lira is not a forgettable three companions off to kingdoms to is available on Hoopla character and the changes she goes Heartless become the new kings, and Dorothy and OverDrive and is July’s Chapter through in the novel will captivate is finally sent home to Kansas. Chat book pick! you. Elian is also a great character; She loses the silver slippers on her I love pirates and funny characters, way over the deadly desert that so Elian was my dream guy. If you The Oz Series and Why surrounds Oz. loved Nikolai from the Grishaverse, You Should READ It: In the book, Oz is a real place, you’ll like Elian from To Kill a The Original Classic: not just Dorothy’s dream. This is Kingdom. what allows Baum to come back The Wonderful in 1904 with his first of 18 sequels: I give this book five out of five stars! by L. Frank Baum “The Marvelous : by D. H. Being an Account of the Further Heartless In the year 1900, L. Frank Baum Adventures of the by Marissa Meyer would publish a book. At the time, he and , and Also Review by F. D. didn’t realize it, but that book would the Strange Experiences of the All Cath wants is to become one of the most influential Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, open a bakery. But with books ever. You may not have read , the Animated a family belonging to the Oz series as a whole, but you Sawhorse, and the Gump; the the nobility of the land just might have read The Wonderful Story Being a Sequel to The of Hearts, the chances of her living Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz” or as it is commonly her dream are low, and the chances You probably think you know the shortened to, The Marvelous Land of a loveless marriage are high. This book’s plot because you’ve seen the of Oz, or just The Land of Oz. is especially true as she is the object movie, but if there’s one thing you So stay tuned, because this has of affection of the jovial, rich, but should realize about Hollywood, it been, The Oz Series and Why You utterly boring King of Hearts himself. is that Hollywood doesn’t really like Should READ It.