Exceptional Contemporary Fiction for 2020
As part of my role as a Collection Management Librarian at Mackin, I evaluate new contemporary fiction titles for middle school and high school. This means that I get sneak peeks at the new [...]
Southern Gothic for Middle Graders. What? Why? Guest Post by K.G. Campbell
Today we are welcoming author and illustrator K. G. Campbell to the Mackin Community blog. In this post, he invites readers into his childhood in Scotland where he grew up loving Gothic stories. [...]
Making Room For Quiet: Guest Post by Jamie Michalak
Today we are welcoming Jamie Michalak to the Mackin Community blog. She is the author of the Joe and Spark early readers and other books the youngest of readers. In this post she describes her [...]
Unplanned Wonder: Writing Güero
We are delighted to welcome David Bowles to the Mackin Community blog today. David is the author of the Garza Twins series and his most recent title, They Call Me Güero, which is a Pura Belpré [...]
Can Goofy Books Make a Difference?: Guest Post by CeCe Bell
We are excited to welcome CeCe Bell to the Mackin Community blog today. Her newest book, Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot, is a silly beginning reader in the format of a graphic novel. CeCe Bell is [...]
Summer Reading: New Nonfiction Series Books
by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Maker Specialist at Mackin These are the dog days of summer and it’s becoming more difficult to get my kids interested in reading. In [...]
On Fear and Author Visits: A Guest Post by S.J. Kincaid
We love hearing about authors in schools. It is always so exciting to hear about kids getting excited to meet the people behind the books and about the general enthusiasm for reading that follows [...]
50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing Celebrated Through Books
Recently, my dad asked me “Katy, where were you when the U.S. landed on the moon?” I laughed out loud, reminding him I wasn’t born … yet. I was born just a few months after we landed on the moon, [...]
