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.

April 16, 2007

Burying Her Head in the Sand

Ellen Wittlinger has created a novel of painful reality. Sandpiper Hollow Ragsdale thinks it’s bad enough having a weird hippie name, but she’s got…

April 16, 2007

Contest Alert! and Weekend Wanderings

Don’t miss the contest at Lisa Yee’s. It’s a short one… a really short one. As in, write a 25 word story. Sadly, I…

April 14, 2007

Amazing Teen Poetry

In discussing craft, the question sometimes comes up of what is kitschy in a work, and what is cool. Added features like the ones…

April 13, 2007

Poetry Before Sleeping

FOG The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on. Carl Sandburg This is a cute…

April 12, 2007

Just Popping By …

Greetings this blustery day! I’m pausing for five minutes to look out and appreciate the world… okay, I could actually a.) shower, b.) put…

April 12, 2007

Is It Only Wednesday?

Round-up ‘Round the Blogosphere Satirical, thought-provoking and often ‘banned-and-burned’ novelist Kurt Vonnegut died today. I imagine him living to 84, just to aggravate those…

April 11, 2007

Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter… Here There Be…

A celebrations of dragons in poetry, prose, fiction, and original folktales, Jane Yolen’s Here There Be Dragons joyously embraces the blank spots on the…

April 11, 2007

Far From the Madding Crowd

Owen is a record player in a tape player world. He’s just completely out of step with his life. It’s not really his fault…

April 11, 2007

Blinded by Firelight

Goose Girl by Shannon Hale leaves our heroine a queen, and her friend Enna quietly fading back into the Forest to care for her…

April 11, 2007

Taking the Words Out of their Mouths

It was just an ordinary day in Nollop, a utopian island city off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop is named after Nevin Nollop,…

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