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PreS-Gr 2 A little girl shares a special day that starts early with Grandma frying chicken and braiding the child's hair. In quite another setting, her father is buttoning his plain white shirt against a plain blue-gray background decorated only by a child's drawings taped to the wall and a calendar marking off days. A bus takes Grandma and the narrator to a building with high walls and barbed wire where "Daddy is doing a little time." It...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

When Grandma is frying chicken at 6:00 A.M., the young narrator knows it's a Visiting Day, and soon she and Grandma will be going off on the bus to see Daddy at the place where, as Grandma casually puts it, "Daddy is doing a little time." While there isn't a story here (the two prepare to see Daddy, visit him at the prison, and go home again), the writing is too matter-of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More