Star Zoo - Reading Reaction

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Author: Harry Gilbert Title: Star Zoo Fiction, 247 pages Nothing ever happens on Just like home. A distant planet far into the future that Hummingbird, a sixteen year old girl, lives on. It is the beginning of a festival called Remembering Night. A festival where everyone dances around an enormous fire while it burns brighlty. Every single person wears different clothes, representing the animal they are named after.With their name boldly printed for everyone to see... Dancing in complete darkness, with only the giant fire illuminating the silhouette of hundreds of thousands of people, Hummingbird holds her father's hand tightly while they danced together.Suddenly he was not there, disappearing into the crowd. She was dancing alone now. She suddenly bumped into someone, surely it must've been her father, but instead it was a man. On his shirt the word Buffalo was boldly printed.She immediately knew that if she met a boy/man during the festival of Remembering - she was to marry him. She was only sixteen years old. She didn’t want him. So she ran, she ran as fast as she could. Whizzing throught the crowd. As she got returned home she found no one there. so she fled with a spaceship. She ordered the robot spaceship to go " far, far away from here"... After several hours of travelling through a dark void at the speed of light, the spaceship stopped. a light flickered. She had encountered a spaceship. Abroad this strange spaceship she found animals, thousands and thousands of all different kinds of animals. Abroad this spaceship there was also a computer that explained that just before Earth was destroyed - Humans built this 'star zoo' to protect all the animals. Hummingbird tried to convince the people back on her home planet that the animals were indeed not all dead. But they thought she was crazy and

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