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To present the recommendations made by the Appropriate Medical Care for Secondary School-Aged Athletes Task Force and to summarize the subsequent monograph developed around 11 consensus points. The MEDLINE, CINAHL, and SportDiscus databases were searched for relevant literature regarding secondary school-aged athletes; health care administration; preparticipation physical examination; facilities; athletic equipment; emergency action planning; environmental conditions; recognition, evaluation, and treatment of injuries; rehabilitation and reconditioning; psychosocial consultation; nutrition; and prevention strategies. Organizations that sponsor athletic programs for secondary school-aged athletes should establish an athletic health care team to ensure that appropriate medical care is provided to all participants. The 11 consensus points provide a framework-one that is supported by the medical literature and case law-for the development of an athletic health care team and for assigning responsibilities to the team, administrators, and staff members of institutions sponsoring secondary school and club-level athletic programs.

Jenkinson discusses the history of the e-zine \"CM\" (www.umanitoba.ca/cm/). \"Canadian Materials began as a retrospective selection tool almost 30 years ago, and in 1995 it became \"CM: Canadian Review of Materials,\" a Web-based product which was also available in an e-mail version.

Jenkinson discusses the differences between selection and censorship when it comes to libraries. Selection results in the addition of information, while censorship ultimately results in the removal of information.

Robert Munsch has become Canada's most widely known storyteller and author for young children. His life and works are profiled.

The Disappearance essentially starts at its conclusion. A teen, Jacob, has vanished, and another teen, Mike, is being questioned by police. The author, having raised questions in readers' minds, returns to the beginning and introduces Mike McCallum, aged 14, who, after three foster homes plus a group home, is being placed in yet another Hamilton group home. Three years earlier, Mike's mother's drunken live-in boyfriend killed Mike's younger brother, Jon, and, wielding a cleaver, significantly disfigured Mike's face when the boy tried to come to Jon's aid. Mike now uses his marred features to prevent others from seeing his deeper scar - his belief he failed Jon.

Thornhill, whose The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk was awarded the 2017 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, has returned with another engaging and informative bird-focused book. But why is this new work a 'triumphant tale,' whereas the former was 'tragic'? The answer resides in the two bird species' relationship with humans. While the flightless great auk could not adapt as its natural environment was invaded by increasing numbers of Europeans, the house sparrow chose to align itself with humans some 10,000 years ago. Nomadic peoples' turning to agriculture meant that these originally migratory sparrows had ready, stable access to their favourite food, grass seeds /grain, while buildings offered accessible nesting sites. Though limited in its flying range, the prolific Old World house sparrow, nevertheless, spread widely by 'hitchhiking' on ships or via deliberate introduction into new lands, including North America. And with increased urbanization, the house sparrow has triumphantly continued to adapt.

The Mosaic written by Nina Berkhout Groundwood Books, 2017 978-1-55498-985-0 (hc) $18.95 978-1-55498-986-7 (eBook) $16.95 for Grades 10 and up Fiction | Art | Mosaics | PTSD | Iraq War | Pacifists For high school students, grade 12 is that transition period during which they complete their public education while anticipating and preparing for their post-graduation futures. Over the past decade, Halo and its environs have experienced severe economic dislocation, and the imminent closure of the adjacent air force base will further impact the already limited futures of Halo's youth. Since few YA titles consider what follows the receipt of a graduation parchment, adolescents will appreciate Berkhout's emotionally moving rite-of-passage novel.

The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk written and illustrated by Jan Thornhill Groundwood Books, 2016 978-1-55498-865-5 (hc) $18.95 for Grades 3 to 6 Non-fiction Picture Book ¡ Extinct Species ¡ Conservation The word \"tale,\" frequently associated with fiction, can also be used to describe a true story being told in an imaginative way. Though perfectly evolved for survival in its harsh, cold North Atlantic environment and numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the species could not adapt quickly enough when confronted by an increasing influx of Europeans who found the clumsy, slow-moving birds easy prey on land. Because mating pairs laid but one egg per year, between the overhunting and egg harvesting, reproduction could not sustain the birds' numbers, which then declined precipitously, with the last known pair being killed in June 1844.