Books in Bloom

Our featured guest author on the Mackin Community blog is Ibtihab Muhammad, the first Muslim American woman to compete for the United States in the Olympics while wearing a hijab. She is an [...]

by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist Millennials have a bad reputation for being lazy, entitled, and self-obsessed. But since 2015, a group of young [...]

Aida Salazar is a celebrated writer and activist. Her middle-grade novel, The Moon Within, received four starred reviews and won an International Latino Book Award. She has several upcoming [...]

by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist The holidays are a great time to go see a movie with family and friends. My sons and I love to watch movies that are [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]