Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani – Review by Michelle Haseltine

I love serendipitously finding books.  As a teenager, I’d roam through the basement of my neighborhood library (where all of the fiction lived). I’d search the shelves for nothing, anything, whatever jumped out at me. My favorite finds were the books that were haphazardly strewn on a table or misplaced on a shelf. I’d scrutinize […]

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Reading and Where It All Began by Michelle Haseltine

In my sixth grade classes we are writing narrative poems about our lives and memories, about where we come from that have been inspired by George Ella Lyon’s poem Where I’m From. Inspired by this format, here is my reading life in the form of a free verse poem…     Reading and Where It […]

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