September 2019 HEGGAN HAPPENINGS FOR TEENS AND TWEENS The Teen Video Game Night Advisory BoArd presents: @ the Library TEEN & TWEEN CUISINE Monday, September 30 • 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 18 • 5:00 p.m. Then(ish) and Now(ish) Learn to make delicious dishes and Star Fox scrumptious snacks during this hands-on cooking experience! Tuesday, September 24 • 6:00 p.m. How have your favorite games Teen & Tween Cuisine is open to Heggan By Teens, for Teens—Teens Supporting Teens changed over time? Library cardholder Teens & Tweens This month we’ll compare an from 5th-12th grade only. Advance The Margaret Heggan Library offers a safe place for teens to just be! older Star Fox installment registration is required. with a more recent release by No Pressure—No Stress—Just Talk playing both Star Fox 64 and . and snacks! Star Fox Zero. Find out if Fox LOCKER CRAFTS Heggan Library cardholder Teens only. McCloud’s adventures through for Teens & Tweens Registration required. the Lylat system matured for Rock your locker for the school year! better or for worse! Create a customized duct tape pencil case, TAB GAME TIME Both Star Fox 64 and make locker magnets, and decorate picture Star Fox Zero are rated E10 or mirror frames. Tuesday, September 17 • 6:00 p.m. for Everyone 10 and up by Tuesdays, September 3 and 10 Come play PuyoPuyo Tetris! the ESRB 5:30 p.m. TAB Game Time is open to Heggan Library Video Game Night is open to adults and children. Children under 10 must be Advance registration required. Open to cardholder Teens only. Registration required. accompanied by an adult. Open to Heggan Library cardholder Teens and Heggan Library cardholders only. Advance Tweens in grades 6-12. registration is required. Please go to Homework Haven www.hegganlibrary.org to register. Minecraft Night Come to Teen Homework Haven at the Heggan Library to get help with research, September 23 • 6:30 p.m. databases, job or college search resoutces Do you have a book Tower Defense resumé or portfolio building, computer you think we should add skills, and more. For all ages. Children under 10 must to our collection? be accompanied by an adult. Open Available Wednesdays, September Send your suggestions to to Heggan Library cardholders only. 4, 11, and 25 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Advance registration required. [email protected] in the Teen Area. MARGARET E. HEGGAN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY 606 Delsea Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080 • 856-589-3334 • www.hegganlibrary.org Bee’s Quick Reviews and the colorful cast of characters you offer and, instead of making an RPG, Twelve Forever meet throughout. It’s silly and random, creates an impressive and well put Although I usually choose to review but in a way that actually works without together point-and-click visual novel. games I’ve played, I haven’t been keeping you confused for longer than Showing clear inspiration from games playing many new games recently. you need to be. It’s one of the only like Danganronpa and Zero Escape, However, I have been watching a shows I’ve watched recently that has Your Turn to Die is a “death game,” lot of shows recently, and one show me genuinely laughing. The writing is as they call it, where multiple people that caught my attention was Twelve really great! are trapped in a mysterious place and Forever, a cartoon series that was I’d highly recommend to any cartoon forced to play life-or-death games and recommended to me on Netflix. fan, or anyone who’s looking for a fun solve dangerous puzzles in order to gain show with a diverse cast of characters. their freedom. Imagine an escape room, but with more dangerous, and possibly deadly, consequences for running out Your Turn to Die of time. The game isn’t completely I’ve played plenty of games that were finished, but each chapter is being made through RPG (Role Playing released individually one at a time. As Game) Maker, and one thing is usually universally true: They’re always RPGs. Maybe not in the traditional sense, but they always have that type of format to Twelve Forever is a unique take on a them. Although I’ve seen plenty of RPG coming of age story, starring Reggie, Maker games completely disregard the a young girl who just recently had her battle aspect and focus more on puzzles 12th birthday. Not exactly ready to or exploration, they always seem to become her mom’s idea of “grown up,” have the same “feel” in the end. of writing this review, the game stops at she finds an escape on Endless Island, However, Your Turn to Die is a the end of chapter 2, but more content is a distant, magical world Reggie is able completely different story… expected to be released soon. to visit through an (albeit accidentally Unlike most games made with the Your Turn to Die is completely free, and made) magical key. From episode one, RPG Maker engine, Your Turn to possible to play through your browser or I was hooked on this show, its story, Die uses what the program has to on mobile devices! Check it out! Book Review of it. I recommend the first book to fans be found after everything they’ve been Grisha Trilogy of Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thornes through! by Leigh Bardugo and Roses series because that’s Review by H. H. The last book, Ruin and Rising, what this book reminds me of while completes the series so well! I laughed, The Grisha Trilogy is about Alina reading. While reading, I assigned each I cried, and the ending is so perfect Starkov and her powers of the Sun character from Leigh Bardugo’s book that I’d read the whole series over just Summoner. When her army unit travels a twin from Sarah Maas’ books – that’s for that. It’s a fantastic series if you’re into the Rift, a dark and dangerous how comparable these books are! looking for good, lovable characters. I place, Alina reveals her power for give it a full five stars; so, what are you the first time to save her best friend. waiting for? Pick it up today! Afterward, she is taken to the Little Palace and trained by the very best teachers to use her powers alongside Author of the Month the most powerful Grisha – the Darkling. Sadly, not everything is as it seems, and Stephen King Alina is forced to make many difficult born September 21, 1947 choices that decide the fate of her world. The next book, Siege and Storm, Quotes: This exciting trilogy by Leigh Bardugo is had me laughing the whole first half. “Books are a uniquely intense, thrilling, and even funny. The new and old characters were portable magic.” When I read the first book,Shadow so funny together, it made me smile. “Remember, Hope is a good thing, and Bone, I hadn’t known what to Leigh Bardugo has a way of making expect and I was surprised to learn her characters interact so that there maybe the best of things, and no how amazing it is. Shadow and Bone is always humor during serious times. good thing ever dies.” hooked me, and I couldn’t get enough It’s amazing how there’s still humor to “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”.