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Gr 1–4—With perfect parity, Laymon poetically lays out how the Black boy from New York came to visit the Black boys in Mississippi, and what unfolds next. While their grandmother is at the chicken plant working, the boys, one called New York and the other two, the country children, walk through the woods to an underpass where they plan to slide on cardboard sleds. Tacitly, New York is moved by the country, the cool air away from his city streets, and his feelings are apparent to the other boys, too. Bo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More