input: One school night this month I walked quietly up to Alexander, my 15-year-old son, and touched his cheek gently in a manner I hoped would seem casual.A year ago he would have ignored this disturbance but now he reacted impatiently and leaned back to his computer screen.

I made a mistake: breaking into my teenager's personal space. "The average teenager has pretty strong feelings about his privacy," Lara Fox and her friend Hilary Frankel told me. Mr.Frankel and Mr.Fox, both 17, are the authors of Breaking the Code, a new book that seeks to bridge the generational divide between parents and adolescents.It is being promoted by its publisher as the first self-help guide by teenagers for their parents, a kind of "Kids Are From Mars, Parents Are From Venus" that explains the language and actions of teenagers.The girls dealt with issues including hanging out late, money, school pressures, smoking etc.

Personally, I welcome their opinions.The most common missteps in interacting with teenagers arise from the war between parents exercising their rights to know what goes on under their roof and teenagers firmly guarding their privacy.Teenagers can be quick to interpret their parents' remarks and respond with anger that masks their vulnerability . Ms Fox said, "What we want above all is your approval.Don't forget, no matter how much we act as if we don't care what you say, we believe the things you say about us."

Nancy, a New York child-raising expert said she didn't agree with everything the authors suggested but found their arguments reasonable."When your kids are saying, ' _ ' there are lots of ways to respond so that they will listen and that is what the writers point out."

" My parents helped me see that, " Mr.Fox told me, " even though they used to stay out late and ride their bicycles to school, times have changed and the way parents educate children is different.These days there is a major fear factor in bringing up kids.Parents worry about their child crossing the street." The writers said they hoped simply to throw light on teenage thinking. 1. What's the son's name?
2. How old is he?
3. Did he respond to his face being touched?
4. How did he react?
5. Do teens care much about their privacy?
6. According to who?
7. And who else?
8. Who are they?
9. What did they write?
10. Are they older ladies?
11. How old are they?
12. What's the book like?
13. What's it about?
14. For who?
15. Is it helpful for them?
16. How so?
17. Does it tackle tough things?
18. Like what?
19. Do teens get mad at their mom and dad's words?
20. Where's Nancy from? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Alexander.
2. 15.
3. Yes.
4. Impatiently.
5. Yes.
6. Lara Fox.
7. Hilary Frankel.
8. Authors.
9. Breaking the Code.
10. No.
11. Seventeen.
12. "Kids Are From Mars, Parents Are From Venus
13. Self-help guide.
14. Parents.
15. Yes.
16. Explains teenagers.
17. Yes.
18. Smoking.
19. Yes.
20. New York.

input: CHAPTER XXI

AGAINST TIME

Dixon's prediction proved correct. When I was brought into court a second time there was still no news of Wilkins, and after further testimony of no importance the case was again adjourned. This time, however, bail was allowed, and Boone and Rancher Gordon stood surety for me. The latter was by no means rich, and had, like the rest of us, suffered severe losses of late. Dixon was the first to greet me when I went forth, somewhat moodily, a free man for the time being.

"You don't look either so cheerful or grateful as you ought to be," he said.

"You are wrong in one respect. I am at least sincerely grateful for your efforts."

Dixon, in defiance of traditions, smote me on the shoulder. "Then what's the matter with the cheerfulness?"

"It is not exactly pleasant to have a charge of this description hanging over one indefinitely, and I have already lost time that can never be made up," I said. "Lane will no doubt produce his witness when he considers it opportune, and there is small encouragement to work in the prospect of spending a lengthy time in jail while one's possessions go to ruin."

"You think Lane had a hand in his disappearance?" Dixon asked thoughtfully; and when I nodded, commented: "I can't quite say I do. My reasons are not conclusive, and human nature's curious, anyway; but I'm not sure that Wilkins will, if he can help it, turn up at all. However, in the meantime, the dinner we're both invited to will put heart into you." 1. Who asked if Lane had something to do with the disappearance?
2. Did he think Lane did?
3. Were his reasons sound?
4. What were they invited to?
5. Whose predictions came true?
6. How many times had court been held?
7. And still nothing about Wilkins?
8. Who posted bail?
9. Who didn't have tons of money?
10. Who did he see first? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Dixon
2. he's not sure
3. he is not 100%
4. dinner
5. Dixon's
6. Two
7. no news
8. Boone and Rancher Gordon
9. Boone and Rancher Gordonhad had suffered losses
10. Dixon

input: CHAPTER THIRTEEN

"The Height of the season," said Bonamy.

The sun had already blistered the paint on the backs of the green chairs in Hyde Park; peeled the bark off the plane trees; and turned the earth to powder and to smooth yellow pebbles. Hyde Park was circled, incessantly, by turning wheels.

"The height of the season," said Bonamy sarcastically.

He was sarcastic because of Clara Durrant; because Jacob had come back from Greece very brown and lean, with his pockets full of Greek notes, which he pulled out when the chair man came for pence; because Jacob was silent.

"He has not said a word to show that he is glad to see me," thought Bonamy bitterly.

The motor cars passed incessantly over the bridge of the Serpentine; the upper classes walked upright, or bent themselves gracefully over the palings; the lower classes lay with their knees cocked up, flat on their backs; the sheep grazed on pointed wooden legs; small children ran down the sloping grass, stretched their arms, and fell.

"Very urbane," Jacob brought out.

"Urbane" on the lips of Jacob had mysteriously all the shapeliness of a character which Bonamy thought daily more sublime, devastating, terrific than ever, though he was still, and perhaps would be for ever, barbaric, obscure.

What superlatives! What adjectives! How acquit Bonamy of sentimentality of the grossest sort; of being tossed like a cork on the waves; of having no steady insight into character; of being unsupported by reason, and of drawing no comfort whatever from the works of the classics? 1. Who is speaking?
2. What do they say?
3. Are they being serious?
4. Why?
5. What is her last name?
6. Why else?
7. In what way?
8. Why else?
9. Had he expressed happiness to see him?
10. Is this upsetting him?
11. What is going on around him?
12. Where?
13. Over what?
14. What else are they looking at?
15. Doing what?
16. Anything else?
17. And the other people?
18. Who else?
19. On their stomachs?
20. What does the other person say?
21. Does this excite him? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Bonamy
2. The Height of the season
3. No
4. because of Clara
5. Durrant
6. Jacob had come back from Greece
7. very brown and lean
8. Jacob was silent
9. No
10. Yes
11. motor cars passed
12. over the bridge
13. the Serpentine
14. children
15. They ran down the grass
16. stretched their arms, and fell
17. the upper classes walked upright
18. the lower classes lay
19. No
20. "Very urbane,"
21. Yes