Summer In A Day

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This story called All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is about a girl that is very smart and has a passion for what she is grateful of. This story is about a girl named Margot and she used to live on Earth where the sun roamed but now they have moved to Venus where it only rains once every seven years. The other students at their school where born on Venus and they have never seen the sun and think Margot is crazy because she thinks the sun will come out any second. When I first heard this story I knew right away it was science fiction because there is space travel and they live on venus where it rains for seven years. This story is believable because he includes real people and it shows real life situations like bullying. This story shows

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