2007 HIV/Aids Awareness Week Nov. 26-30

Did you know?

Every two hours, someone in Canada is infected with HIV.

Check out the Canadian HIV/Aids Information Centre at the following link.

http://www.aidssida.cpha.ca/

Some Graphic Novels at NRHS

A United Force



" It's 55 BCE. The British Isles have been home to the Celts for hundreds of years. Now, an ambitious Roman general named Julius Caesar plans to change all that." Back Cover





Usagi Yojimbo : Grasscutter, Book 12

"When the fates place the Grasscutter in the hands of the masterless samurai Usagi Yojimbo, the ronin rabbit becomes the focus of a deadly struggle for possession of the dread blade." Back Cover






The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; adapted by Peter Kuper

A graphic adaptation of the classic story.

Dating Violence

Did you know....
A 2000 Ottawa study of 90 young men 13-17 years of age found that about two-thirds (67%) of the young men reported having abused their girlfriends: about one-third (34%) were emotionally, physically and sexually abusive; almost one-quarter (22%) were emotionally and physically abusive; and one-tenth (10%) were emotionally and sexually abusive. In in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of 30 marginal, abusive young men, all of the young men reported that they had engaged in many collective as well as individual acts of girlfriend abuse.
Check out this Dating Violence Fact Sheet!

http://www.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/fm/datingfs.html

More Book Reviews

Airstream Land YachtKen Babstock
In his brilliant and long-awaited third collection, award-winning, critically acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to leave our "homes half-sheathed Tyvek" and "drift into the pain of our neighbours." Like Babstock's earlier work, Airstream Land Yacht testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience ("a leather recliner star /gazing on the free /side of a yard fence," "shopping /carts growing a fur of frost," a grounded kite "nose down in the crowberries and fir") while introducing an expansiveness of inquiry with linguistic bravado and a quiet grace. The clutch of love poems contained here are key to unlocking the larger collection -- itself a love song to the wordless world.

Taken from Anansi Press

The story follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond -- to a harrowing Atlantic crossing to Montreal. On the way, Fergus loses his family, discovers a teeming world beyond the hill farm where he was born, and experiences three great loves.

Book Reviews

Mistik LakeBy Martha Brooks

In 1981, sixteen-year-old Sally McLean is in a car full of teenagers when it plunges through the ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Sally is the only survivor. Many years later, Sally's teenaged daughter, Odella, is left wondering whether the accident is to blame for her mother's life as a sad alcoholic who eventually abandons her family and flees to Iceland with another man. When Sally suddenly dies in an accident, Odella, her father and her two younger sisters are almost overwhelmed with grief and confusion, until three people provide help and healing in unexpected ways. A stunning novel about what happens when you don't follow your heart, and the lies, wrong choices and secret suffering that can continue to haunt you and the people who love you.
Taken from Groundwood Books Website

Lest we Forget

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