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Alex Marty
GloriaMelman
Alex, Marty, Melman
and Gloria are friends.
They live in New York
Zoo.
Meet ... the animals from
2
I’m Melman
the giraff e.
I’m Gloria
the hippo.
I’m Alex the lion.
I’m Marty
the zebra.
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King Julien
The lemurs
The fossa
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I’m King Julien. I’m
a lemur. I can dance
and sing.
We are fossa. We like
lemurs for dinner.
We are lemurs. We
live with King Julien in
Madagascar.
Before you read …What do you think? In
this story, who is good?
Who is bad?
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New Words
fish
catch
What do these
new words
mean?
Ask your
teacher or use your
dictionary.
The girl is beautiful.
It’s a white boat.
What’s in the box?
beautiful
boat
box
Look at the fish!
You can’t
catch me!
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meat
push
zoo
wild
‘Happy Birthday!’
medicine
Do you like meat?
Happy Birthday!
She’s pushing her brother.
The animals are in
the wild.
The animals are in the zoo.This is medicine.
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CHAPTER 1
‘The zoo is our home!’
It is Marty the zebra’s birthday.
‘Happy Birthday!’ say his friends.
But Marty is not happy. ‘I’m ten years old
and I don’t want to be in this zoo. Come to
the wild with me!’ he says.
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‘The wild?’ laughs Alex the lion. ‘But
everyone in New York loves me!’
‘And there’s no medicine in the wild!’ says
Melman the giraffe.
‘The zoo is our home!’ says Gloria the
hippo.
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That night, Marty runs away from the zoo.
‘Oh no!’ says Alex. ‘Where is he?’
Alex, Gloria and Melman go into town. They
see Marty.
‘Come home to the zoo!’ they say.
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Suddenly there are men in front of them
and men behind them.
‘Hello, everyone!’ says Alex.
The men do not say hello. They catch the
animals.
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Alex opens his eyes. It is dark.
‘Where am I?’ he asks.
‘In a box,’ says Gloria. ‘We’re on a boat.’
‘We’re going to a new zoo,’ says Melman.
‘I don’t want a new zoo!’ says Alex.
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Alex is angry with Marty. He pushes Marty’s
box. Then Marty pushes Alex’s box. They push
the boxes off the boat.
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