Action Research for Kids provides teachers with comprehensive, creative, and hands-on units to engage students in action research. Students will benefit from learning about quantitative and qualitative research practices that can make a real difference in their lives and those within their communities. Within this text, teachers can select a lesson or use whole units as students explore research methods such as survey research, experimental research, life history, and photovoice in fun lessons that ask them to create a library wish list, interview people in their communities, lobby for cookies in the cafeteria, and experiment with preservatives. Each lesson comes with detailed instructions and ideas for differentiation. Grades 5-8

In Lillians Eden, debut novelist Cheryl Adam takes the reader to Australian rural post-war life in the 1950s through the life of a family struggling to survive. With their farm destroyed by fire, Lillian agrees to the demands of her philandering, violent husband to move to the coastal town of Eden to help look after his Aunt Maggie. Juggling the demands of caring for her children and two households, and stoically enduring her husbands continued indiscretions, Lillian finds an unlikely ally and friend in the feisty, eccentric Aunt Maggie who lives next door. With wonderfully drawn characters reminiscent of Ruth Park and Kylie Tennant, Cheryl Adam shows us the stark realities of rural life behind the closed front doors and scented rose-filled gardens. She highlights the endless physical and mental demands on women like Lillian who have to grapple with the challenges of a newhomeland as well as never ending family responsibilities. This rich, raw novel pays homage to friendship and to the rural women whose remarkable resilience enabled them to find happiness in sometimes the most unlikely of places.

As a young unmarried mother in the 1960s, Maureen faces stifling disapproval and condemnation from mainstream society. Desperate to create a new life for herself and her baby, she rekindles an old romance and moves to South Africa under Apartheid. But her precarious journey to Africa's Eden is not the paradise she anticipated. Cultures smash against each other, family relationships are strained, there is death and despair, violence and injustice. But there is also humour, fun, family and friendship, as Maureen has to decide where her future lies. Is it in Africa or back home in distant Eden, in her Australian homeland?

Thank God for families. In this book, it will be a guide to help family members build each other for success. The world we live in displays many different foundations for families - foster parents, grandmothers, one parent households, and more. How did God create families to be? Did you know that "family" was established in heaven? God saw that it was good and wanted to share this gift with mankind. This book is a tool to teach the reader, children, and other family members how to help one another be unified and how to keep oneself from hurting others and oneself. The illustrations give diversity of families and visibly helps the reader to remember how to promote and instill family unity. Open up your heart, mind, and spirit to receive how God wants families to operate.