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“Mind off. Body On.” This was the simple guidance offered by my favorite gym instructor before any of her classes began. It didn’t matter what [...]

Daniel Nayeri’s latest middle-grade book, Everything Sad is Untrue, is an autobiographical work of fiction. In today’s guest post on the Mackin [...]

Generation Z (born between 1996 and 2009) and Generation Alpha (born in 2010 or later) have the potential to be the most politically informed and [...]

Rex Ogle’s debut Free Lunch won the 2020 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award and received several starred reviews. In the book, Ogle uses his [...]

by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager & Makerspace Specialist Have you ever wondered why so many people believe in “fake [...]

When I brought home the book Trapped in a Video Game by Dustin Brady, I hoped it would be an entertaining chapter book to read aloud with my [...]

More times than I can count, I have heard all kinds of artists call their latest release a “baby” and lament in interviews the [...]

Nic Stone’s 2017 debut novel, Dear Martin, was a New York Times Bestseller, a William C. Morris Award Finalist, an ALAN / Amelia Elizabeth Walden [...]

How do an author’s childhood experiences translate to the written page? In today’s guest post on the Mackin Community Blog, author Christine [...]

When much of the United States, and the world, was disrupted by the pandemic in March 2020 people were surprised that I could work from home.  [...]