Juvie by Steve Watkins

Author:Steve Watkins [Watkins, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6715-3
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

I get a letter from Dad the next day — a soiled white envelope with spidery handwriting that I recognize right away. I tear it open, but there’s no letter inside, just a yellowing piece of wide-ruled elementary-school paper with a crayon drawing of a girl, her arms tight to her sides, flying with birds and clouds and an airplane high over a city. I remember drawing it when I was in second grade. There’s even a red check-plus on it from my teacher, Mrs. Delany. The caption reads, “I dreamd I was flying over Lost Vegas. It was for the big meeting.”

Dad has probably saved every paper, every test, every picture, every project I’ve ever brought home from school since kindergarten. Carla’s, too. Why he chose this one to send me in juvie, with no letter or even a note — no anything — I have no idea. I can’t remember why I drew a picture of me flying over Vegas, either. I’ve never even been to Vegas — Las or Lost.

I don’t get the chance to study the picture for very long and try to figure out whatever hidden message Dad might have meant for me to find. Mail call only lasts fifteen minutes, and before I know it, the guards come around to collect all the letters and stuff them into folders. They say we’ll get everything back when we’re released. As if that will make any difference.

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