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Rodent brothers Louie and Ralphie Ratso think that they must be rough and tough to be cool, but author Kara LaReau uses their hilarious misadventures to debunk that myth and break the stereotype [...]

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 [...]

In  Kia  Heise and Christopher D. Park’s  debut children’s book  Little Sock, the reader learns the whimsical answer to a common household problem, where do lost socks go? Sock City of course!  [...]

by Alex Genis, Foreign Languages Collection Management Librarian at Mackin Many of our high school age teens can be overly conscious about what they wear and what their clothing says about them. [...]

I feel fortunate, overwhelmed, excited, and anxious about starting a makerspace from four white walls. I converted an old textbook room into a makerspace at my last school and for some reason [...]

Many of my books spring from social or environmental injustices—oceans struggling with plastic, the alarming decrease in biodiversity around the world, children who cannot attend school because [...]

Anyone who is familiar with my work knows that my focus is not on products or materials or supplies for a makerspace and that I have written extensively instead about the research, pedagogy, and [...]

In the era of 1:1, many educators (and parents) hold tight to students reading “real” books, such as books bound by a publisher. Others say we need to “get with the times” and allow our students [...]