The Star Zoo. Harry Gilbert
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- Издательство: Oxford University Press(2017)
- Серия: Level 3
- Год написания: 2012
- ISBN: 9780194786614, 978-5-04-055956-5
- Страниц: 46
- Язык: Английский
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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…