A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Harry Gilbert.
In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests.
In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name ‘Hummingbird’ in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real hummingbird. She has never seen any living animal or bird at all. The Book of Remembering says that there were once many animals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning, a long, long time ago…
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Harry Gilbert. The Star Zoo
THE STAR ZOO
1. You must marry me
2. A spaceship made of plastic
3. Monsters
4. More monsters
5. Waiting for fifteen thousand years
6. They don’t believe me
7. The answer is robots
8. An animal is made
9. An animal is destroyed
10. Two of everything
GLOSSARY
The Star Zoo. ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES. Before Reading
ACTIVITIES. While Reading
ACTIVITIES. After Reading
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY
THE OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY GRADING AND SAMPLE EXTRACTS
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Nothing ever happens on Just Like Home – that’s the name of the planet I live on. I get so bored!
But tonight was Remembering Night and that’s exciting. There’s the big fire where everybody must put on something that they love and watch it burn. Then there’s the dancing round the fire.
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But tonight was Remembering Night and that’s exciting. There’s the big fire where everybody must put on something that they love and watch it burn. Then there’s the dancing round the fire.
But what I like best about Remembering Night are the clothes. We usually wear what we like on Just Like Home – but the clothes must have the name of our name-animal on them. For example, I always have the word ‘Hummingbird’ on my clothes, which means my name is Hummingbird – Hummy for short.
