Charnaie Gordon reads a lot of books with her 6-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son. Those books are about people from different countries with different backgrounds and cultures. She hopes her children can see into the world of others from books.

One day, the family realised that they couldn't keep all the books. Then they donated some to the local library. Later, the daughter learned that some families didn't have enough money to buy kid books. Then she had an idea: They could give the books to kids who needed them.

In August 2018, the family started a project—50States, 50 Books. They decided to donate 50 different kinds of children's books to each state of the country.

In the beginning, Gordon didn't know what to expect. But a week after she put the project on her blog, book donations began arriving in the mail. By November, her family had collected more than 700books. A publisher sent 800more. With that donation, they could send 50 books to 30 states. Six months later, a final donation, from author Minh Le and his wife, got the family to their goal of 2, 500 books. Then Gordon mailed the books to schools, libraries and families that needed them.

Because of this challenge, many kids can read books for free. Gordon says it's important for kids to read lots of books since it can help kids understand what they can do and be whatever they want to be.

Now that she has finished her 50 States, 50Books challenge, Gordon is beginning another one.

It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination.1, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.

Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived 2for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a holiday.3 him were his American wife Fanny and his stepson Lloyd.

Each morning Stevenson would take them out fora long 4over the hills. They had been enjoying this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days were 5. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some 6.

One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert 7that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of the island. "What's that?" he asked. "That's the 8 treasure, "said the boy. Robert suddenly saw something of an adventure story in the boy's9. While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make a twelve-year-old boy the10of the story, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate?

Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the11of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to12such a man in a story. So Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was13.

So, thanks to a 14September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest15stories in English.

Have you ever heard of Kong Xiangdong? He is a world-famous classical pianist and composer. He is well-known his work Forever Friends, a song for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Even now, people all around the world are still (bring) together by the music of the song written by him.

Kong was born on October 22, 1968 in Shanghai, when he was young, he showed interest music. However, it was not easy for his parents to buy (he) a musical instrument at that time. At the age of seven, he was lucky enough to get a piano. He practised it quite hard every day. He never thought of giving up, he met with a lot of difficulties on the road of music. Because of his talent (才能)and hard work, he became famous soon. In 1986, he became the (young) prize winner of Moscow's Tchaikovsky International Competition.

After years of (play) classical music, as an ambitious (有雄心的)musician, Kong felt it boring to play the same music in different (city) of the world. He also thought that playing (tradition) Chinese music with the modern piano could help take it to the rest of the world, and he kept trying it. As a result, he (successful) brought Chinese folk music and Western classical music together.