The Year of Sharing

Harry Gilbert

Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 2

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Harry Gilbert.

Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motor-car and drive it… very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests.

And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year of Sharing. He must live alone in the forest with the wild animals. He must learn to share his world; he must learn how animals live and eat and fight… and die.

Harry Gilbert

The Year of Sharing

THE YEAR OF SHARING

What will the world be like five hundred years from now? Will cities become bigger and bigger, with more buildings, more cars, more factories, more noise and smoke and dirt? Will there be any green forests left, where animals can live and die in freedom?

Richard’s future world is very different from this. There are no cars, only bicycles. There are no cities, only villages. And the forests of the world are only for the wild animals that have always lived there.

Everyone in the world must do their Year of Sharing when they are twelve years old, and by tomorrow morning Richard will be somewhere deep in the forest. He will have a new family – a family of wild animals, and he will live with them for one year. He will be cold and hungry and tired, but he will learn – learn to share the world with other animals.

It is a hard lesson to learn, and there are many dangers waiting in the forest …

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