August 2019 HEGGAN HAPPENINGS FOR TEENS AND TWEENS

The Teen Advisory Board SPACE CRAFTS presents: for Teens & Tweens Let your space adventures begin! TEEN & TWEEN CUISINE Join your friends for fun and creative Wednesday, August 21 • 5:00 p.m. projects on Wednesdays in August Learn to make delicious dishes and from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Register online or scrumptious snacks during this hands-on Tuesday, August 13 • 6:00 p.m. call the library to reserve your spot! cooking experience! By Teens, for Teens— Teen & Tween Cuisine is open to Heggan Teens Supporting Teens Library cardholder Teens & Tweens Video Game Night from 5th-12th grade only. Advance The Margaret Heggan Library offers a registration is required. Please safe place for teens to just be! @ the Library go to www.hegganlibrary.org to register. No Pressure—No Stress—Just Talk Monday, August 26 • 6:30 p.m. . . . and snacks! Heggan Library cardholder Teens only. Let’s Play Ristar! Registration required. As Ristar, you must save the Valdi system from the evil space pirate Kaiser Greedy. Your COMIC LAB adventure will take you through planets themed Monday, August 5 • 6:00 p.m. TAB GAME TIME around water, fire, music, and more! Learn how to create a comic book Tuesday, August 20 • 6:00 p.m. Ristar is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB from start to finish. Come play Jackbox Party Pack 3! Video Game Night is open to adults and TAB Game Time is open to Heggan Library children. Children under 10 must be For all ages. Children under 10 must cardholder Teens only. Registration required. accompanied by an adult. Open to be accompanied by an adult. Open Heggan Library cardholders only. Advance to Heggan Library cardholders only. registration is required. Please go to Advance registration required. CHAPTER CHAT www.hegganlibrary.org to register. Teen Book Discussion Group Minecraft Night August 9 Cinder by Marissa Meyer August 19 • 6:30 p.m. YA Summer Challenge August 23 Let’s Explore the Alien Off Planet by Aileen Erin Pick up a challenge board Monument! This group meets at 2:00 p.m. in the Teen Area of the library. For all ages. Children under 10 must to discuss popular YA fiction. Return completed boards to the be accompanied by an adult. Open library for a chance to to Heggan Library cardholders only. These discussions are open to Heggan Advance registration required. Library cardholder Teens only. Registration win a prize. is required.

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plans and it’s up to later. It is also a unique take on the Cinder her to help save her classic Cinderella fairy tale. Not only is by Marissa Meyer kingdom. Cinderella a cyborg, she’s also kick-butt Reviewed by H.H. This series is widely and her best friend is a hilarious robot. Flash forward to the future after WWIV, popular and it’s Another note-worthy aspect is that this where there’s a whole kingdom on the no surprise why. book takes place in Japan instead of moon and cyborgs are possible. Linh Although the first the West. It’s not at all like any book I’ve Cinder is one of those cyborgs, which book, Cinder, for read before. makes her a disgrace to society. It’s a some might be a bit This book is a must-read for any fan of surprise when Prince Kai comes to her predictable, it solidly twisted fairy tales, modern fairy tales, or to fix one of the palace robots. As she sets the scene for futuristic fairy tales because what comes fixes it, Cinder learns of some worrying more exciting and adventurous books after this beginning is fantastic! It’s the necessary foundation to an epic tale of love, adventure, and friendship. Bee’s Quick Reviews Off Planet by Aileen Erin Night in the Woods Bug Fables: Reviewed by H.H. “At the end of everything, hold onto The Everlasting Sapling Maite Martinez lives a somewhat normal anything.” I am a huge fan of the Paper Mario life, if you call being an undercover alien The game Night in the Woods has been series. Like, seriously. I LOVE Paper fugitive normal. She has a best friend, out for quite a while now. I would see it Mario! However, starting with Paper a mother who loves her, and a job at a everywhere at the height of its popularity Mario Sticker Star, the more recent diner. When she defends herself against back in 2017, but it took a while to catch games in the series have been sadly a rude customer, that all changes. my interest. Recently, I decided to give it mediocre. The stories were NOT Maite is caught by law enforcement and a shot, and I am glad I did. anything spectacular, the characters punished with an almost impossible Night in the Woods is a 2D adventure were forgettable, et cetera... I’ve been job – working on game with mystery and horror elements desperately awaiting a NEW title in the a lava planet! Can added in to bring the whole experience series with the same impact as The she survive her together. You play the game as Mae, Thousand Year Door or Super Paper sentence, or will the a college dropout who recently moves Mario… and Bug Fables just might be government be down back into her old town. The story is the answer to that. one less enemy? much deeper than I expected it to be, Bug Fables is an indie game heavily Aileen Erin is by far but it works well, and I finished the based on the Paper Mario series but my favorite author game feeling fairly satisfied but still with its and this is the first wanting to play more. Every choice own book in her newest you make matters, which is always unique series, The Aunare Chronicles. At first, something I appreciate. The game universe, reading this felt like cheating on my seems to encourage replaying more story, and favorite book by Ms. Erin, Becoming than once, with many achievements you characters Alpha, because this book is just that couldn’t possibly get in a single play to keep good! I couldn’t stop reading!!! In the through. Every time I replay the game its own identity separate from that of middle, though, it gets a bit slow and it since originally completing it, I discover its inspiration. Although the full game feels like the same thing happens over something new, making each time feel hasn’t been released yet, it currently and over – because it really, sadly, does. fresh and unique. Everything about it, has a demo up on itch.io, and I decided Luckily it picks up in the end and leaves to give it a shot to see what the new readers dying to know what will happen game was all about. If the demo is any next! indication, it seems like a pretty solid Many of the characters are funny and game with a colorful set of bug-themed endearing. One character named characters and a fun combat system Lorne is totally swoon-worthy. Some that, again, is very heavily inspired of the best parts of this book were the by the earlier Paper Mario games. I interactions between Maite and Lorne from the story, to the characters, to the enjoyed the demo a lot, and can’t wait to and between Maite and Roan. One of music – is excellent! try out the full game once it releases. Aileen Erin’s best qualities is her ability I don’t want to spoil the story for anyone Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling to write amazing characters. There’s interested in playing, but I will say this: releases in September of this year on never a character you won’t like and Expect the unexpected, and prepare to Steam, PS4, and Switch. My advice: especially no book by her that could be surprised. Check it out! I know I will. disappoint!