Author Lisa Funari-Willever smiles with first-graders Olivia Muchowski and Chase Muchowski. Ms. Funari-Willever kicked-off Roebling Elementary School’s annual Read Across America celebration on Friday with assemblies for the entire school. She is working on her 20th book. Ms. Funari-Willever started writing during the third grade and travels all over the world giving lectures. She was born and raised in Trenton and resides in Mansfield.

