Book Review

When I saw the title for the book Once Upon a Tim, it made me laugh out loud. I love a good pun, and I’m a sucker for old-time-vibe fairy tales with a modern twist, so I thought I would enjoy [...]

For those of you who do not already know, The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom, adapted from the original BBC version, that lets the viewer follow employees’ daily lives at work at [...]

Daniel Nayeri’s latest middle-grade book, Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story), is an autobiographical work of fiction. In today’s guest post on the Mackin Community Blog, Nayeri presents a [...]

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 [...]

I believe that World Kindness Day, taking place on November 13th, is a day that everyone should observe. The purpose of World Kindness Day is to highlight good deeds in the community, focusing on [...]

by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist at Mackin When I was growing up, I was the only person I knew who spelled their name “Katy” with a Y. Often times, [...]

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, [...]

As May draws to a close, we are wrapping up National Foster Care Month! There are over 442,000 children in the foster care system in America1. The kids in foster care range from newborns to older [...]