Author: Tanita Davis

tanita s. davis is a writer and avid reader who prefers books to most things in the world, including people. That's ...pretty much it, she's very awkward and she can't even tell jokes. She is, however, the author of eleven books, including Serena Says, Partly Cloudy, Go Figure, Henri Weldon, The Science of Friendship and the Coretta Scott King honored Mare's War. Look for her new MG, book Berry Parker Doesn't Catch Crushes September 2025 from HarperCollins Childrens' Books.

July 23, 2008

The Girl With the Leaf-Colored Eyes

The Tree Shepherd’s Daughter begins the Fair Folk Trilogy. Keelie Heartwood has high hopes for the Wildewood Renaissance Faire. She’s been hanging out in…

July 23, 2008

Sarcastic Cyrano?

I don’t imagine that Cyrano de Bergerac could have worked any harder. In this novel, his female counterpart, Cyrie, is — perfect. She makes…

July 23, 2008

First-born Daughter

It’s not that she’s a queen-bee or anything, but Josey Muller is the only girl in her family, other than her Mom, that is,…

July 23, 2008

Confessions of an Accidental Player

Brookband High’s popular senior guys are preparing for the Senior Rituals, the annual end-o-year hijinks everyone always loves — or so they would have…

July 23, 2008

Can Dead Men Wink?

Poor Alice. She’s cold, and it’s raining, and this is a miserable, humiliating, and on top of that, heartbreaking duty. But it IS a…

July 23, 2008

It's Not A Question

Lurlene McDaniel’s work is not anything I’ve read before, but this book looked different from her usual, so I picked it up. PREY is…

July 23, 2008

Hollow Bones

He looked dead. The horrible pile of bones, which was overlaid with spider’s webs and dead flies, was moving, though, and Michael wanted to…

July 23, 2008

No More Barbies

It isn’t easy being Maria’s daughter. She’s gorgeous and rail thin, and a real go-getter, that’s what everyone says. Carmen …isn’t, and every chance…

July 22, 2008

Fighting Words

“…with a few exceptions, the critics of children’s books are remarkably lenient souls. They seem to regard books for children with the same tolerant…

July 22, 2008

A Good Great Day for Writers

Further congratulations go to Cynthia Leitich Smith on the sale of BLESSED, an “interconnected Gothic fantasy suspense” in the same universe as her previous…

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