October Library News

The 2024 yearbook has arrived on campus! After a year of taking photos, gathering information, designing page layouts, and editing, the Yearbook Council of last year can now enjoy the fruition of their hard work. 

Returning students are savouring the experience of flipping through the pages, finding the faces of friends, and remembering a wonderful school year. 2024 graduates will soon receive their books in the mail, or they can pick them up campus.  

October’s book of the month is The Barren Grounds by David Robertson, the first in the Misewa Saga that readers are calling “Indigenous Narnia”. The series follows two Indigenous children who are taken out of their homes and communities and into foster care in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They find a portal to another world in an old attic. That world—populated by talking animals—is a “barren” winter landscape where food is scarce. They must learn and then rely on traditional methods of hunting, trapping, and wayfinding to survive, and hopefully save the land from eternal winter. The novel incorporates Cree legend about the constellations, fantasy, and adventure.