A Horse Named Viking

This last week I read a recently published book call A Horse Named Viking by Caroline Akervik.  The book is about the life of a horse named Viking. Viking is not your typical horse but a horse with attitude and a mind of his own.  He is a horse that can not be controlled and goes through many trainers before he finds trainers that will work with him the way he wants. The author knew her subject well and by the time I finished reading the book I had a desire to be part of the horse world that the author described. The descriptions in this book were so good that I felt like I was sitting watching the scenes as I read the book. I fell in love with the horse Viking in this story even know the horse wasn't what you would call the typical horse.  This book made me laugh and made me cry. I could not put the book down until I had finished it. I would recommend this book for your students that love stories about horses. Your students will learn a lot about horses and about the world international horse competition. This book was wonderful. I believe that this books audience will be students in grades 4-9 (and many adults).

The author of this book is from Eau Claire, Wisconsin and is a Library Media Specialist at a local elementary school. 

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Cool Bulletin Board

Nicole Brown, my student teacher this last quarter, created this wonderful bulletin board outside the library at my middle school. The morning that it was completed the students actually ran into each other trying to read it. The students just loved it.

No More Dewey - Part 2

I have finally finished weeding the everybody nonfiction section. I then did inventory on the section and marked the missing books lost. This allowed me two times to get my hands on the books. I carried a sheet with my categories on it and kept adding as I went through.  I am now ready to start dividing up the section. As I was working my way through this section I tried to figure out how to divide the section. I debated with the biography books as to whether to put them in the sections with their subject or make a people section and divide them by their subject in the people section. I really had to think about the way my students might use the books. I decided that I was going to create the people section and divide by subject. It will be interesting to see what other categories I will have to rethink. I am excited to get this process going. I don't work during the summer but I have an aide that keeps the library open during summer school so I am hoping to have the section into piles for her to redo spine labels.