THINGS JUST AREN'T THE SAME
A Story About Growing Up

    Bodily changes, emotional insecurity, and sexual curiosity are characteristic of life during puberty. In this new appealing and often funny work of fiction, Catherine Brett interweaves factual information on these subjects with a story focusing on the relationship of two longtime friends discovering adolescence together.

    Brian and Anita are building an airplane for a science project. As the work proceeds they are also helping one an- other understand their changing bodies and feelings as well as sharing sexual and anatomical information. Young adolescents, boys and girls can follow Anita's experience of buying a brassiere, Brian's conversations in the locker room and their perceptions about what they are hearing from friends, teachers and family. A sensitive and humorous novel supplemented with illustrations and a glossary of terms. Women's Press, 229 College Street, #204, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1R4, (416) 598-0082.

ACTION RESEARCH FOR WOMEN'S GROUPS

     Jan Barnsley and Diana Ellis, The Women's Research Centre, 1666 W. Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1X6. The kit is in six parts: Introduction to Action Research, The Women's Research Centre and our Assumptions About Action Research, Making the Decision to do a Research Project, Designing An Action Research Project, Communicating the Findings of and Action Research Project. Discounted rate for women's groups is $2.70.

FEMINISM AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

Women's Work, Women's Struggles

by Heather Jon Maroney and Meg Luxton

Concerns the political economy of the women's movement, women's work, both paid and unpaid and the relationship of women to state policy. Methuen Publications, Toronto, 1987.

The Women's Kit, published by the Participatory Research Group is a set of booklets for women in English as a Second Language classes, literacy groups and other women's groups. The booklets include material about the lives of women from the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and England. Order from P.R.G. 229 College Street, Suite 309, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1R4.