Westside Elementary School welcomed author and poet Jacqueline West on Oct. 24. This was a free event organized and sponsored by Waucoma Bookstore and publisher Penguin books to promote the “Books of Elsewhere” series.

Tiffany Bertadillo, a fifth grader in Nicole Ligon’s class at Westside, was chosen to introduce West through a writing contest held by librarian Debi Gallagher.