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October 19, 2022 by Cindy Shutts

Cindy Crushes Programming: Tacocat and Happy Salmon Table Top Game Reviews

Teen Librarian Cindy Shutts shares her thoughts on two new table top games

August 3, 2022 by Cindy Shutts

Cindy Crushes Programming: Live Action Hungry Hungry Hippos

The librarians at the Lockport Branch Library walk you through a fun, live action game of Hungry Hungry Hippos

February 5, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Author Cecil Castelluci is Offering a Book Based Gaming Package to Libaries

Author Cecil Castelluci (Tin Star) has made a table top RPG for Tin Star, kind of like D&D, where you play aliens who dock on the space station and interact with the characters from the book on a mini adventure. You don’t have to have read the book to play the game, or play the […]

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Game Review: Star Fluxx

April 10, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

I have introduced my tweens and teens to a monster. No, not Bigfoot or The Blob, it is the card game called Star Fluxx. They are addicted in every sense of the word. Any time there is a break and there are two or more of them together, they can be seen shadowing the doorway […]

TPIB: Divergent Truth or Dare

March 7, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

My tweens and teens are completely excited for the Divergent movie. You have NO idea- I have been getting asked for MONTHS when it’s coming out, can we go see it together, when are we going to go see it… and these are GUYS. So those of you with a mix of teens I know […]

TPiB: Divergent Programming, a guest post by Cindy

January 13, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Divergent Program OutlineFaction Quiz. J-14 styleAmity Art Contest design a new cover for  DivergenErudite Quiz on Divergent and Chicago historyDauntless (Truth or Dare) Divergent editionAbnegation  Divergent SnacksCandor (Who are you challenge) Divergent is very popular right now and the movie is coming out soon, so we know it will only grow in popularity. Living in […]

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TPiB: Humans vs Zombies (Lock-In Version with Doctor Who twist)

August 21, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

v:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Twice every year, right around Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and the beginning of school, I hold a lock-in for teens who have reached a particular reading goal. For the Summer Reading Lock-In, they must read 65 hours or more in order to stay 13 hours in […]

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