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Gr 2-4 Bryant has created a fictional chance encounter between a boy and an elderly Marianne Moore as they ride a Brooklyn bus to the zoo in the 1940s. While Moore is the focus of the story, Jonathan is the narrator, and his words have a poetic quality. The poet -s hat looks like -a piece of black cloth or a shingle that -s blown off a roof - and the words she has written in her journal -line up in rows like obe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More