Speaker 1: Our guest reader today is Christina and she will be
Speaker 1: reading today's story Oliver.
Speaker 2: In outer Space. Late one night, Oliver was in his bedroom,
Speaker 2: staring out into space at a collage of sparkling stars
Speaker 2: through his telescope. Oliver was a curious boy who often
Speaker 2: wondered what was out there in all the swirling galaxies
Speaker 2: and clusters of light. He had posters of spaceships from
Speaker 2: real life and movies, and dreamed of far away worlds.
Speaker 2: Sometimes Oliver would ride his bike around the little town
Speaker 2: where he lived, thinking there must be more to the
Speaker 2: universe than everything he knew. One day, Oliver hoped he
Speaker 2: could be an astronaut and fly up into the sky
Speaker 2: and experience space for himself. How odd it would be
Speaker 2: to be so far away from the Earth and look
Speaker 2: back at it as another ball of light in the sky.
Speaker 2: Oliver had big dreams, but at eight years old, he
Speaker 2: had to wait until he was grown up to fulfill them.
Speaker 2: That was such a long time. He sure wished he
Speaker 2: could do something important and exciting, especially with space. All
Speaker 2: he could do was watch the universe through his telescope
Speaker 2: and dream. It was nearly ten o'clock and Oliver yawned boy,
Speaker 2: he was tired. Then through the little eyepiece he noticed
Speaker 2: a star brighter than any of the others, a burning,
Speaker 2: blistering star that sparked, and that little embers of light
Speaker 2: whoa gasped Oliver. The sparkling star got bigger as it
Speaker 2: came nearer to the telescope's lens. It became so bright
Speaker 2: that Oliver had to pull away from the eyepiece. As
Speaker 2: he did out through his window, the shooting sparkling star
Speaker 2: whushed over his house and landed with a mighty thud
Speaker 2: in the woods beyond his backyard. No way, Oliver exclaimed.
Speaker 2: Oliver thought about what he should do. It was school
Speaker 2: early in the morning. He shouldn't really, Oliver snuck out
Speaker 2: of his house, grabbing his bike from the porch. He
Speaker 2: pedaled fast, making it past his backyard and into the
Speaker 2: woods beyond. He turned the little light on his handlebars
Speaker 2: as he entered the bike trail into the woods. It
Speaker 2: was very dark and all he could see were scary
Speaker 2: looking trees and brown leaves lying all over the ground.
Speaker 2: Then in the distance he could see an odd glow
Speaker 2: emanating from beyond some thick bushes. That must be, he thought,
Speaker 2: Oliver quickly peddled in the light's direction. He couldn't use
Speaker 2: his bike anymore as the terrain was too filled with
Speaker 2: weeds and vines. I'll have to go on foot. Oliver
Speaker 2: ran and jumped over any obstacles, making sure he didn't fall.
Speaker 2: Then he found it. Wow. There in a crater in
Speaker 2: the ground, surrounded by smoke, was a golden, glowing meteor.
Speaker 2: With trepidation, he moved closer to the glowing meteor, being
Speaker 2: careful he didn't fall into the crater it created. On
Speaker 2: closer inspection, and Oliver gasped, it wasn't a rocky looking
Speaker 2: meteor like he'd seen in pictures in a movie. It
Speaker 2: was perfectly smooth, like an oversized bowling ball, glowing like
Speaker 2: a tiny sun. What is it? Asked aloud. Suddenly, from above,
Speaker 2: a bright blue spotlight being down on him. Oliver looked
Speaker 2: up to where it was coming from. Then, as if
Speaker 2: by magic, the golden glowing orb began to lift up
Speaker 2: into the sky, zooming towards the center of the light. Slowly,
Speaker 2: Oliver noticed his feet were beginning to shift from the ground.
Speaker 2: He was floating up into the sky along with the
Speaker 2: golden glowing sphere. Whoa Oliver yelled as he shot up
Speaker 2: in the air, moving closer to the light. Suddenly, the
Speaker 2: light was all around him. Everything went dark. Where am I?
Speaker 2: He thought? An orange light came on. He was in
Speaker 2: a room surrounded by strange looking computers and contraptions, and
Speaker 2: the room wasn't square, it was saucer shaped. Oliver gulped,
Speaker 2: am I in a yep? A voice, said a flying saucer.
Speaker 2: Oliver turned to a little boy with blue skin and
Speaker 2: green hair, who looked no older than he did. And
Speaker 2: you must be yep, said the boy, again, an alien.
Speaker 2: But to me you're the alien pink skin and brown hair.
Speaker 2: How odd I suppose we're both aliens to one another,
Speaker 2: Oliver said. Universe is a big place, said the boy,
Speaker 2: lots of different types of people all over the thing.
Speaker 2: My name is Gray and I come from the Milky Way.
Speaker 2: He held his hand out and Oliver shook it. My
Speaker 2: name is Oliver and I come from Earth. Oliver thought
Speaker 2: about this for a moment and said it doesn't rhyme
Speaker 2: as well as yours doesn't have to. My friend, Gray said,
Speaker 2: with a grin. All that matters is you're a hero.
Speaker 2: You found the solar night's sun the what Gray's side
Speaker 2: I forgot. You're an earth man. You don't know about
Speaker 2: solar night's suns. Well, a solar night's sun is a
Speaker 2: little sun that we set up on planets. We put
Speaker 2: a solar night's sun there, and all kinds of things happen,
Speaker 2: good things. This one fell off of our mothership and
Speaker 2: we were looking for it, and ye, you found it.
Speaker 2: That means you can come up and I'll show you
Speaker 2: how it works and give you a tour of the galaxy.
Speaker 2: Oliver couldn't believe it. They flew in Gray's flying saucer
Speaker 2: up through the clouds and into outer space. They whizzed
Speaker 2: past the Moon and around Mars and headed for the
Speaker 2: Milky Way. The colors in space were dazzling bright reds, pinks,
Speaker 2: and blues. No telescope could do justice. Too Soon they
Speaker 2: arrived at a little planet spinning on its own. That's
Speaker 2: the line, Gray said. Here, press this button, he said,
Speaker 2: pointing to a green, glowing button. Oliver clicked the button,
Speaker 2: and at the back of the ship, the solar Night's
Speaker 2: Sun shot out into space and hovered above the planet.
Speaker 2: Then the solar night Sun started to beam bright rays
Speaker 2: to the planet's surface, and as if by magic, the
Speaker 2: entire surface started to grow with beautiful flowers and trees,
Speaker 2: creating a green paradise. You know how many insects and
Speaker 2: animals will one day live on that planet, Gray said,
Speaker 2: all because you found the solar night's sun and sent
Speaker 2: it back into space. All of a sudden, Oliver felt
Speaker 2: very important. He felt bigger than just a boy from
Speaker 2: a little town who dreamed of space. He understood that
Speaker 2: the planet would be home to many creatures, and it
Speaker 2: made him happy to know that they could live there
Speaker 2: in safety and peace. All because of him. Gray took
Speaker 2: Oliver on a tour of the galaxy, flying around planets
Speaker 2: and shooting past stars. The Earth was just as he imagined,
Speaker 2: a tiny bright light in a sea of space. Oliver
Speaker 2: seemed to understand everything a little better. It didn't matter
Speaker 2: if you were on Earth or in space. It was
Speaker 2: kindness that counts. Gray dropped Oliver home on Earth, waved goodbye,
Speaker 2: and then flew off back into space. When Oliver went home,
Speaker 2: he looked through his telescope and zoomed into the planet
Speaker 2: he'd helped create with a sullen night sun. It didn't
Speaker 2: matter if you were on Earth or in space. You
Speaker 2: always have to do good things wherever you are in
Speaker 2: the galaxy. The end