The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 3: 1,000 Headwords The Star Zoo

Type

Book

Authors

Harry Gilbert

Tricia Hedge

ISBN 10

0194230163

ISBN 13

9780194230162

Tags

Children's Books, Words, Language & Grammar, English as a Second Language, Botany, Schools & Teaching

Description

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 ... - from Amzon

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