New Releases by Pam Harris

For the grown-up people too. Sometimes things other people say to us can really affect us and make us feel a little bit out of sorts. Even if it''s from the people we love. Clover the lamb realises, with the help of his friends, that he has to be true to himself and do what gives him joy and also embrace whatever makes his little heart soar. And ... never forget to bounce ... Not ever!

Highgarden Academy, home of New York''s most prestigious actors. No less than greatness is expected from all of its students, and directors specifically seek out anyone with Highgarden on their résumés. Join six of Highgarden''s acting students as they strive to achieve that greatness despite the obstacles in their paths: a caretaker battles a stalled career while needing to provide for her children; a lothario strives to find his breakout role despite his short stature; a beauty gets the part of a lifetime and a director who fights her every step of the way; a composer mounts his first show starring an incompetent box office draw; an optimist struggles to get any acting work but never stops believing that she will; and a geek realizes that sometimes reality is better than fantasy. Will their unique talents be enough to reach their goals as theater professionals? Or will they learn that success is not measured by how large their names appear on a marquee but by the friendships that help them through the hard times as they spend their careers in oblivion?

Unexplained voices coming from nowhere in the middle of the night, a strange man lurking around them, a quirky great- aunt who has an obsession about a singer who has been dead for years, a homeless teen-age boy with a secret--all mysteries that twelve-year-old Mandi Ferguson must solve during her dreaded stay in Memphis, Tennessee. Much against their will, she and her twin sister have been sent from their home in California to stay with a great-aunt they barely know while their mother is on a two-week honeymoon in Europe. There is nothing Mandi likes any better than solving mysteries and when she hears voices outside of her room during her first night in Memphis, she is convinced she is hearing ghosts, possibly Elvis Presley''s ghost since her great-aunt''s house is right behind the entertainer''s home, Graceland. Is there a connection between the voices and the man who is spying on them? What about the homeless boy with a mysterious past who needs their help? What is Aunt Trina''s true connection to Elvis? And why doesn''t her mother call more often--is she so enamored with her new husband that she is unconcerned about her daughters? Mysteries can be fun to solve, but as Mandi learns the answers to all of her questions, she discovers that the solutions were right in front of her all along. All she needed to do was ask.

Prepared for unit ECS807 offered by the Faculty of Education in Deakin University''s Open Campus Program.

Prepared for unit NPR806 offered by the Faculty of Nursing in Deakin University''s Open Campus Program for the Master of Nursing Studies.

Time orientation, concepts, natural units of time, time in the human life cycle; time as event, distance, limit; measurement; aims and strategies for teaching.