The Star Zoo
FANTASY & HORROR
Harry Gilbert
CEFR B1
Word count 8,915
NO AUDIO AVAILABLE
In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird in 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…
ISBN 9780194791311
