Second graders at Shelby enjoy March Madness with books not basketball

SHELBY — March Madness has reached Natalie Shell’s second-grade class. But instead of basketball, her students are focused on books. “I picked out 32 books ahead of time and created a bracket,” said Shell, who is in her fourth year at Shelby. “It’s displayed in the classroom. They filled out the bracket, like you do for March Madness.” She gave a hard copy of the bracket to each of her students. Shell chose random books and did not seed them. “Each day, we read the two books that are going against each other,” the teacher said. After Shell reads the…