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Name: City Summer, Country Summer
Author: Laymon, Kiese
ISBN: [978-0-593-40556-7,0-593-40556-0]

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City Summer, Country Summer

Author: Laymon, Kiese

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Follett Number: 2423BG7
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Kokila, 2025
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-40556-7
ISBN-10: 0-593-40556-0
LCCN: 2024-041539
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

Subjects:

African Americans Fiction

Country Life Fiction

Friendship Fiction

Mississippi Fiction

Picture Books

Summer Fiction

Three African American boys, including one visiting from New York, form a meaningful connection during a summer trip to rural Mississippi.

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A lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family. On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable. Three Black boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods and woulds and coulds of sharing the kind of freeing friendship that is love. Watched over and given space to discover by Grandmama and Mama Lara, New York, Country, and little C find camaraderie in their contrasts and all the unspoken things between them while playing games of marco polo in the thick garden and sledding on cardboard by the underpass. With text brimming with love by award-winning author Kiese Laymon and deeply evocative illustrations by Alexis Franklin, City Summer, Country Summer illuminates the tenuous and tender bonds of friendship Black boys forge with one another.

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