Problem: Are you looking for a summer reading list for your child or teen? Keep your child reading all summer with this selection of 2012 summer reading lists.

Books for primary school students

Kenneth Cadow: Alfie Runs Away

When his mother wants to give away his favorite shoes just because they're too small, Alfie decides he's had enough.

Kate Feiffer: My Side of the Car

It might be raining on Dad's side of the car, but imaginative Sadie argues that it is not raining on her side, so their trip to the zoo doesn't need to be put off.

Books for high school students

Flinn: Beastly

A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a proud Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return.

Lord: A Night to Remember

A description of the sinking of the " Titanic". a reputedly unsinkable ship that went down in the Atlantic on April 10, 1912 after hitting an iceberg, resulting in the deaths of over l, 500 people.

Books for high school students

Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn

It's Mark Twain's classic story about a young man and his slave Jim. They travel upriver to escape slavery and in the process Huck discovers what it J11cans to be a man. It teaches us about the value of friendship and sacrifice.

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

It is about a young man named Pip who inherits ( ) a great deal of wealth from an unknown source.The money quickly moves him up the scale in London.however, at the same time it also teaches him about the dangers of ambition.
1. Who wrote a night to remember?
2. What is the subject matter?
3. And it's geared for what age group?
4. How many books are recommended for that age group?
5. How many for the younger group?
6. Pip is the man character in what classic novel?
7. Who was the author?
8. Who wanted to go to see animals in their cages?
9. Which story is a modern adaptation of a classic fairytale?
10. Mark Twain wrote which novel?
Answer: 1. Lord
2. The " Titanic
3. High school students
4. Four
5. Two
6. Great Expectations
7. Charles Dickens
8. Huckleberry
9. Beastly
10. Mark Twain

Problem: Golf in the USA was until quite recently the hobby of old,middle class white men.Not any more.The fact that the class,age and race barriers that existed in the sport have finally been broken down is due almost entirely to two people.Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie.

Tiger Woods was born in California in 1975 and is one of the greatest golfers of all time.His ethnic background is marvelously rich and varied.His father Earl was of mixed of black,Chinese and Native American ancestry and his mother Kultida,who was originally from Thailand,also had Chinese and Dutch forefathers.

Woods became a professional golfer in 1996 and,less than a year later,astonished the world easily winning the prestigious Masters Colf Tournament,an annual event which takes place at the Augusta Golf Club in Georgia,USA.At 21,he was the youngest golfer ever to win the tournament,but much more important,he was also the first Asian American to do it.

Woods'amazing achievement is put into perspective when you realize that until 1990,no non-white American had ever been allowed to join Augusta Golf Club.Even in 2000,it only had two black members.In fact,in 1977,Clifford Roberts,the chairman of the club and founder of the Masters Tournament,proclaimed:"As long as 1 am alive,golfers will be white and caddies

will be black."Roberts died not long after making this racist remark...

Fortunately,his views were not shared by his successors and the dramatic appearance of Tiger Woods on the Golf scene radically changed attitudes to the sport and prompted a major surge of interest in the game among ethnic minorities end young people in the USA.

Michelle Wie,a Korean American born in 1989 whose mother was an amateur golf champion in Korea,will probably became the greatest woman golfer of all time.She's 1.85 meters tall and she can play a golf ball further than most men.Like Woods,she has transformed the world of golf,and wants to do so in even more dramatic ways.She has expressed her determination to play on the men's tournament circuit,not just the women's,and has already appeared in several professional men's tournaments.

Thanks to Woods and Wie,golf in America will never be the same again.
1. In what year was Tiger Woods born?
2. In what state?
3. What sport does he play?
4. Is he mixed race?
5. What racial background does his father have?
6. And his mother?
7. From what country is she?
8. What is her name?
9. In what year did Woods start his career in golfing?
10. Did he win a big award within a year of that?
11. Where does it take place?
12. How old was Woods at this time?
13. Was he the first Asian American to win it?
14. Who was chairman of the Augusta Golf Club?
15. What tournament did he establish?
16. In what year was Michelle Wie born?
17. What nationality is she?
18. Was her mother involved in golfing?
Answer: 1. 1975
2. California
3. Golf
4. ethnic background is marvelously rich and varied
5. black,Chinese and Native American
6. Chinese and Dutch
7. Thailand
8. Kultida
9. 1996
10. Masters Colf Tournament
11. Augusta Golf Club in Georgia
12. 21
13. yes
14. Clifford Roberts
15. Masters Tournament
16. 1989
17. 1989
18. Korean American

Problem: The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper, among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others. According to the New Testament, the rite was instituted by Jesus Christ during his Last Supper; giving his disciples bread and wine during the Passover meal, Jesus commanded his followers to "do this in memory of me" while referring to the bread as "my body" and the wine as "my blood". Through the Eucharistic celebration Christians remember Christ's sacrifice of himself on the cross.

The elements of the Eucharist, bread (leavened or unleavened) and wine are consecrated on an altar (or table) and consumed thereafter. Communicants (that is, those who consume the elements) may speak of "receiving the Eucharist", as well as "celebrating the Eucharist". Christians generally recognize a special presence of Christ in this rite, though they differ about exactly how, where, and when Christ is present. While all agree that there is no perceptible change in the elements, Catholics believe that they actually become the body and blood of Christ (transubstantiation). Lutherans believe the true body and blood of Christ are really present "in, with, and under" the forms of the bread and wine (sacramental union). Reformed Christians believe in a real spiritual presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Others, such as the Plymouth Brethren, take the act to be only a symbolic reenactment of the Last Supper.
1. What rite was established by Jesus during the Passover meal?
2. What did the wine symbolize?
3. And the bread?
4. Was it a certain type of bread?
5. What kind?
6. What had to happen to it before it could be eaten?
7. What religion sees this as just acting out the Last Supper?
8. Is the Eucharist called by other names?
9. Like what?
10. What do Christians remind themselves of when doing this?
11. Who did Jesus give the bread and wine to during the Last Supper?
12. Did he order them to take it?
13. For what reason?
14. What do you call those who eat the bread and drink the wine?
Answer:
1. The Eucharist
2. jesus' blood
3. "my body"
4. yes
5. leavened or unleavened
6. consecrated on an altar
7. the Plymouth Brethren
8. yes
9. Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper
10. a special presence of Christ
11. his disciples
12. yes
13. in memory of me
14. Communicants