Singing in the Stacks: A Makerspace with STYLE
Today kicked off our week long STYLE: Songwriting Through Youth Literacy Education residency-in-the-library by Nate Bogopolsky and Tiffany Wilson. Nate and Tiffany performed a song they wrote for [...]
Keep Your Series Current: February 2018
Update your popular series with these books that will be published in February. Enjoy! PRIMARY SERIES & SEQUELS The Cardinals Caper (Ballpark Mysteries, Book 14) by David A. Kelly. [...]
Great Nonfiction Titles for January 2018
Take a look at these exciting nonfiction titles published in January. Enjoy and learn! PRIMARY NONFICTION Alabama Spitfire : The Story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird by Bethany [...]
Great Realistic Easy/Fiction Titles for January 2018
Check out these exciting easy and fiction titles published in January. Everything here is realistic, including historical fiction, mysteries, and adventure. Happy reading! ELEMENTARY PICTURE [...]
Great Speculative Easy/Fiction Titles for January 2018
Check out these exciting easy and fiction titles published in January. You’ll find magic, talking animals, dystopian societies, science fiction, and fantasy. Happy reading! ELEMENTARY PICTURE [...]
Rethink Carrots and Sticks
Learner Engagement Part 1 (of 5) I have been a student of adolescent literacy for almost 20 years–dedicated to reading about the science behind what motivates and engages our youth in [...]
A Guest Post by Author and Illustrator Daniel Salmieri
Before we started working at Mackin, most of us were quite ignorant of the entire process of making a book. We all read extensively, some of us even write, and a couple might realize that getting [...]
Margarita Engle: Award-Winning Author and Young People’s Poet Laureate
Margarita Engle has received multiple Pura Belpré Awards, a Newbery Honor, and several other accolades; and she is currently serving a two-year term as The Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet [...]
