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February 2021 HEGGAN HAPPENINGS FOR TEENS AND TWEENS

The Teen Virtual Writing Club Video Game Nights Advisory Board for Teens & Tweens Let’s Play the Oregon Trail presents: Join our conversation about writing! Monday, February 1 • 6:30 p.m. TAB Chapter Chat Do you like to write? Do you like playing Join us as we play one of the most cherished with words or pictures to tell a story? Join us on Zoom for a Virtual and nostalgic series in gaming history: Teen Book Discussion Group! This is a group for you! MECC’s The Oregon Trail. Set in 1848, this When you think of the best love story ever, We’ll give each other suggestions and legendary edutainment title tasks players what favorite comes to mind? Do you believe support for whatever concerns with assembling a wagon party and surviving you know the greatest romance story ever you have. the trek from Independence Missouri to written? Then this book club is for you! Oregon. Will we be able to overcome this Friday, February 12 notorious challenge? It’s a Romance-themed starting at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom book discussion night! Open to patrons ages 16 and up. Please contact Librarian Barb at Please register via the online calendar. Come join this discussion on the best [email protected] romance ever! This game will be streamed on for more information. Discord, where party decisions will Thursday, February 18 be determined by group feedback starting at 6:00 p.m. Tween & Teen Book Club and voting. TAB Chapter Chat is a book club run by and for teens. Join us for a Virtual Book Discussion Let’s Play Phantasy Star This group meets monthly to discuss popular with author Stuart Gibbs. YA Fiction on Zoom. We’ll be joined by author Stuart Gibbs as we Online 2 discuss the last book in Monday, February 22 • 6:30 p.m. Please contact Librarian Barb at Phantasy Join us for an online adventure! [email protected] The Last Star Online II is a free to play MMORPG for more information. Trilogy available on PC (Windows 10 and Steam), and XBOX (One, and Series X). Meet with Double Cross It’s TAB Virtual Game Time! us and other players as we embark to Thursday, February 25 explore the galaxy. Friday, February 19 at 6:00 p.m. Open to patrons ages 16 and up. starting at 6:00 p.m. Please register via the online event Join us on Zoom for a thoroughly This reading group meets to discuss calendar. virtual Game Time event! popular Fiction on Zoom. Double Cross is available through curbside pick-up and as eBooks or Winter Writing Challenge audiobooks on Hoopla and OverDrive. Write about a “holiday book” Please contact Librarian Barb at that has had an impact on you. [email protected] The book can cover holidays for more information. from December through Come play Among Us— February. Be sure to include a social deduction party game Check out the title and author. with traitors! Teen & Tween Virtual Library! Each month a review will be Use your smart phone, tablet, or From the library website, hover printed in this newsletter and the computer to play! on “Youth Services” and click on winner will receive a prize. Please contact Librarian Barb at “Teens & Tweens.” Email entries to [email protected] Enjoy! [email protected] for more information.

MARGARET E. HEGGAN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY 606 Delsea Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080 • 856-589-3334 • www.hegganlibrary.org REVIEWS OF THE LAST MUSKETEER TRILOGY Author Stuart Gibbs will join our Tween & Teen Book Club on February 25th

The Last Musketeer against Dinicoeur to find and unite On the surface both are cool ideas; by Stuart Gibbs the two halves of the Devil’s Stone but, what if doing so makes history reviewed by H.H. so he can return to the future. And change? …possibly removing one’s add to that a traitor within their ranks very existence… When 21st century American teen and the Spanish army heading This is the dilemma facing 21st Greg Rich takes a trip with his toward . 1615 is officially more century Greg Rich as his family finds family, the last place they expect dangerous than ever for Greg and itself back in 1615. Greg must do the to end up is 17th century France. his parents. Will he beat Dinicoeur unimaginable to get them back to But alas, they are stuck in medieval to the stone, or will his loyalty to the their own time safely. Along the way, times - home of the bubonic plague and France keep him he has become one of the legendary and a time period before indoor from returning home? Musketeers, who are all in their plumbing. Upon I thoroughly enjoyed this second teens. arrival, Greg’s installment to Stuart Gibbs’ The parents are In this third installment, Last Musketeer series. Greg’s thrown in jail and Double Cross, the travels with , , it’s up to him to four Musketeers, who and allow each character’s save them before are charged with the talents to shine as they encounter their execution duty to defend King enemy after date. How does Louis, are having a enemy. The non- a 14-year-old go difficult time because stop action paired about doing so? Why, by assembling a prince scheming to take Louis’ with the mystery , of course! throne has locked them up in his of the Devil’s dungeon. What is worse is that Greg Stuart Gibbs is one of my favorite Stone carried the has to figure out how to break out authors, and this is probably one of plot and drove of prison and save King Louis’ life his best works. It was like reading the boys across without altering history. What’s worse his Spy School series, but set in France, expanding still is that their motto, “All for one, medieval times! Despite not being the world while amping up the one for all,” has become increasingly familiar with the original Three excitement. The further introduction strained as evil forces work their Musketeers, I was able to follow of and Catherine hardest to destroy the Musketeers. along perfectly, as Gibbs gives allowed for witty banter among the The trust the Musketeers have plenty of background for his readers. crew, adding a much-needed humor in each other falters as they try to The characters are endearing and element to the otherwise action- move forward as a team. there are many plot twists that will packed novel. I believe fans of the Swashbuckling sword fights, ensure his readers never get bored. original story by Join us as we read the series and narrow escapes, grenade-like will be pleased with Gibbs’ twists on explosions, fiery arrows abound as come to one of the Tween and Teen the original story, and that the series Book Club meetings! the Musketeers battle to save King can be enjoyed by anyone of any Louis, Paris, and Greg’s family. age looking for a quick, fun read. Can they do it all? Can Greg ever The Last Musketeer: get back to the life he had? Does Traitor’s Chase The Last Musketeer: he even still want to? Read it and by Stuart Gibbs Double Cross find out! It’s an action-packed end reviewed by F.D. by Stuart Gibbs to this trilogy filled with elements of After Greg’s time travel adventures reviewed by L.B. malevolence and wonder. in the first novel, our favorite Having the ability to time travel, All three books are available group, the Musketeers, returns in becoming an expert sword fighter, through , this action-packed sequel as they and fighting for a noble cause – curbside pickup OverDrive, and . attempt to stop Michel Dinicoeur it’s all in this series! What teen Hoopla Author from triggering a war which could wouldn’t want to become one of the Stuart Gibbs will join us for our series discussion on February take over France and alter the legendary Musketeers? What teen course of history. wouldn’t want to do a little time travel 25th during the Tween & Teen Book Club. Add to that Greg’s personal race to meet some of their ancestors?