Books in Verse – MacKids School & Library

Latinx Voices for Kids & Teens

August 4, 2025August 21, 2025

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Looking for recommendations for books by Latinx authors? We’ve got you covered! Keep reading to discover new books and revisit your favorites! Plus, download our Latinx Voices catalog!

Spotlight: Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa
by Sara Andrea Fajardo and illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal

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For Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month, we interviewed author and potato advocate Sara Andrea Fajardo, award-winning illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal, and Connie Hsu, VP, Executive Editorial Director at Roaring Brook Press to hear how this book was made! Click here to read the interview, preview interior art, and learn more about Peruvian scientist and potato hero, Alberto Salas! Plus, find real photographs of Alberto Salas in action, taken when Juana visited Peru!

MacKids Spotlight: María Dolores Águila

August 1, 2025August 1, 2025

A Sea of Lemon Trees Cover and María Dolores Águila's author photo under a headline MacKids School & Library Author Spotlight

This month’s Author Spotlight is María Dolores Águila, author of A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez, a vivid and uplifting middle grade debut novel in verse about one young child’s courage to stand up for what is right, and the determination of the Mexican community, based on a true story.

MacKids Spotlight: Alliah L. Agostini

July 14, 2025July 16, 2025

This month’s Author Spotlight is Alliah L. Agostini, author of Scarecited on the First Day of School, a picture book about a young girl who is feeling mixed emotions about her first day of school.

MacKids Spotlight: Kortney Nash

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025

This month’s Author Spotlight is Kortney Nash, author of Tell Me About Juneteenth, an empowering picture book that celebrates Juneteenth!

MacKids Spotlight: Ann Bausum

May 1, 2025May 2, 2025

This month’s Author Spotlight is Ann Bausum, author of White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History, a powerful young adult novel that examines racism and deconstructs the warped history of the Civil War for teen readers.

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

February 26, 2025March 12, 2025

We’ve put together a roundup of titles to celebrate National Poetry Month, including new 2025 titles coming soon such as The Five Wolves, While We Wait, and Spark! Explore our poetry titles, and discover more about each book below by clicking the book jacket!

MacKids Spotlight: Adina King

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025

This month’s Author Spotlight is Adina King, author of The House No One Sees, an evocative young adult novel written in verse and prose that follows a teen girl and her memories of her childhood, her house, and her mother who battles an opioid addiction.

Celebrate National Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month

September 4, 2021December 21, 2023

National Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month is observed from September 15 – October 15. We’re celebrating our Hispanic authors, illustrators, and creators this month (and every month) and sharing Hispanic stories. Keep reading to discover new books and revisit your favorites!

MacKids Spotlight: Amber McBride

August 1, 2021December 19, 2023

This month, we’re interviewing Amber McBride, author of debut novel-in-verse Me (Moth)! The novel is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family and a teen boy who crosses her path. The book publishes this August and has just earned its first star from Booklist, who described the story as being “hauntingly romantic.”

Amber shares more about her inspiration for the story and what she hopes young readers will learn here.

Watch author Zetta Elliott read Caldecott Honor Book A Place Inside of Me and check out our Poetry Roundup!

March 31, 2021December 19, 2023

We’ve put together a roundup of titles to get you excited about National Poetry Month, including titles like What the Road Said, Woke: A Young Poet’s Guide to Justice, and Caldecott Honor Book A Place Inside of Me.

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