Aubrey Hopson dressed as the Wicked Witch looks to one of her classmates in Jalisa Brown’s fourth-grade class while completing her classwork at the Frazier Elementary Accelerated Reading Kickoff Wednesday in Natchez. (Nicole Hester / The Natchez Democrat)

Aubrey Brown helps her student, Alexistrue Mazique , zip up his lion costume that Mazique’s father sewed for him to wear during the event. (Nicole Hester / The Natchez Democrat)