Harry Gilbert Books

Part of a series of elementary readers which offers students the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of the English language, this reader at Stage 2 contains 700 headwords. It is a futuristic fantasy about humans and animals.

Beginners. Speed level 6 (100-110wpm). In the far distant future, Hummingbird is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has never seen a real hummingbird. The Book of Remembering says that there were once many animals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning.