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Summer in the City

Summer in the City
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 3 to 4
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   4.53

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    respite, city, glare, cool, spill, leafy, beneath, warn, heat, emerge, moisture, spend, reach, through, lights, thick

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Summer in the City
By Mary Lynn Bushong 		  
1     
City streets in summer
Never cool but get hotter
Where there are no trees
The roads become a grill.
 
2     
Open hydrants fill the air
With cooling drops of moisture
For a little while.
Then they are closed once more.
 
3     
Shoppers hurry through the
Languid heat to reach awnings.
They spend too much money in stores,
Avoiding the sun's taunting glare.

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