Authors: Amelia Cobb
The Wild Wolf Pup (7 page)
With special thanks to Natalie Doherty
For Lara and Isaac
ZOE’S RESCUE ZOO: THE WILD WOLF PUP
First published in the UK in 2015 by Nosy Crow Ltd
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ISBN: 978 0 85763 519 8
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Chapter One
Zoe Parker grinned as she ran out of the school gates, swinging her bag beside her. Her mum, Lucy, was waiting for her. “It’s the summer holidays!” Zoe yelled, giving her mum a big hug.
Lucy smiled and ruffled her daughter’s wavy brown hair. “How was the last day of term?” she asked.
Zoe began to skip excitedly along the pavement. “It was fun, but I just couldn’t wait for the holidays to start. Six whole weeks!” She smiled at her mum. “And I get to spend every single day at my favourite place.”
As they got closer to home Zoe heard noises ahead: roars, bellows, screeches and squeaks. Animal noises!
Finally they turned a corner, and there in front of them stood a pair of tall, beautiful gates, with a line of lush oak trees on either side. The gates were made of golden wood, and covered with delicate carvings of every sort of animal you could think of. There were majestic tigers, soaring eagles, snapping crocodiles and elegant gazelles. About halfway up, two words were carved across the gates in swirling letters: RESCUE ZOO. Right at the top, a golden hot-air balloon twinkled in the sunlight.
A queue of excited visitors were streaming through the gates, but Zoe and her mum walked straight past them.
As she stepped inside the zoo, a familiar warm, happy feeling spread through Zoe’s tummy. “Home sweet home,” she whispered.
Zoe and her mum weren’t visiting the zoo – they
lived
there! Zoe’s Great-Uncle Horace was a famous explorer and animal expert, and on his travels around the world he had met lots of animals in need of help. That was why he’d decided to build the zoo, so it could be a safe place for any creature who was lost, injured or in trouble. Now it was home to hundreds of amazing animals!
