Haddonfield Today 148_2024May31

#148 • MAY 31 TO JUN 21, 2024
The Word on the Street
The Public Library’s Summer
Reading Challenge – for kids,
teens, and adults – will
begin on Wed Jun 19.
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If you were to re-read a favorite
book from your childhood, which
book would you choose?
And why?
“I grew up in Lebanon,”
says ASSAD KHOURY
of Cherry Hill. “Reading
about the adventures
of Tom Sawyer and
Huck Finn gave me
insight to one aspect
of life in America, a
desire to learn more
about the country, and
eventually to live here.”
MICHELE
DiGIROLAMO of
Haddonfield says
she “spent many a
lazy afternoon” in
her bedroom reading
Nancy Drew mysteries.
“I devoured those
books,” she says.
CARLA CORNICK
didn’t hesitate:
‘Charlotte’s Web’!
“I don’t like spiders,”
she says, “but it
impressed me that
a bunch of misfits
learned that when
one of them won,
they all won.”
JOHN BURMASTER
of Haddonfield says
that “‘McElligot’s Pool’
– an early work of Dr.
Seuss – “taught me
that I could imagine
anything.” John says,
“I believed it then and
I still do.”
Haddonfield’s
BILL LANE
confesses that he was
not a good reader but
was “enthralled” by the
Hardy Boys and their
adventures. “I would
put aside part of my
allowance to be sure I
had enough to buy the
next book, as soon as it
came out.”
MADELINE
GRALISH of
Haddonfield would
re-read ‘A Wrinkle in
Time’ by Madeleine
L’Engle. “It captured
my imagination
because it provides
the reader with
a portal into a
different dimension.”