Having a ball reading

PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Top to bottom: Dwayne "Swoop" Simpson, a Harlem Wizards basketball player, reads a book about Michael Jordan titled "Salt in His Shoes" to students, as he passes a spinning basketball to Elena Riccardi, 9, at the third annual Family Reading Night at the Samsel Upper Elementary School in Sayreville Nov. 15. Mercedes Minaya (r) and her 9- year-old daughter, Jada (l), play bingo. Denise Little (in the back) watches as her children, 7-year-old Jarred and 9-year-old Kara, make pop-up books.