Earl Haig SS Library

I’ve always thought of Susan Juby as a light-hearted, humourous author of teen fiction (Alice I Think, Miss Smithers, Another Kind of Cowboy, Getting the Girl). What I didn’t realize is that she spent most of her teen years coping with life by abusing drugs and alcohol. She talks quite frankly about what happened to her in her latest book, an autobiography entitled Nice Recovery. Hear her interview on CBC Radio here (if you don’t want to listen to the whole show you can advance the scroll bar to get into the segment on Juby – about 3/4 of the way along)

Check out this CBC podcast: Susan Juby www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/MT/2010/04/post_1.html

Today during Period 1 the library was closed for a guest speaker. Mrs. Yermus’ mom, a survivor of the Holocaust came to share her stories with students from Ms. Lenchak and Ms. Lue’s classes. One student said to me, “I’ve heard Holocaust survivor speak before, but I was in grade 6 then, I understand it a lot more now.”

If you want to hear more stories, consider borrowing one of the survivor memoirs published by the Azreli Foundation. They tell the stories of survivors living in Canada. Listen to Paul Henri Rips reading from his book by clicking on the title of his book  E/96: Fate Undecided

Toronto Public Library is looking for volunteers for their summer Reading Buddies program. Read the attached file to get information about how to sign up, the program and the number of hours involved. After all summer’s only 10 weeks away!

ReadingBuddies2010

It’s here! Limit of 2 per customer… But you can come back as often as you like