Abby the Librarian

For this month's Reading Wildly meeting, we read horse books! It was a great genre to explore because almost everyone (including mysel...

Big Top Burning: The True Story of an Arsonist, a Missing Girl, and The Greatest Show on Earth by Laura A. Woollett . Grades 5 and up. Ch...

Today, I'm over at the ALSC Blog with a post about our recent Science Playground . Please click through and check out this easy, cheap,...

Laying in bed the other night, I put down my phone and told my fiance "Okay, I better be productive and read a book." And he...

The Great Monkey Rescue: Saving the Golden Lion Tamarins by Sandra Markle . Grades 3-5. Millbrook Press, October 2015. 40 pages. Review c...

This is how I envision vacation... Photo by Janne Hellsten I posted earlier this year about  taking vacation  and here I am again. A cou...

Here's what I've been reading this week on my Readcation. I'm in the middle of Radioactive!: How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner...

My staff and I pencil in vacation dates for the year when our vacation is awarded in January. I wrote up a whole big boring post about it, w...

Diversity has been on my mind lately, and that's not going to stop. My staff and I have made it part of our departmental goals to includ...

Friends, today I'm over at the ALSC Blog talking about leaf rubbings . It may seem like a very basic, boring activity, but our Aftersch...