Melissa McRae has been the Boaz Middle School librarian since 2006. Before becoming a librarian, she taught language arts. She graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature in 1994. In 1998 she earned a Master of Science in Secondary Education Language Arts from Jacksonville State University and in 2008 earned a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama. Melissa and her husband Tim live in Boaz with their Shetland sheepdog Lucy Bea.