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 7, 2006

Cinderella + Snow White + the Madwoman in the Attic

Once upon a time there was a fairytale that wasn’t really about magic. It was about… science?! Author Tracy Lynn combines traditional faery fare…

July 7, 2006

UNbelievable.

Hey, remember awhile back when I blogged about Vamos A Cuba, the Cuban books that the Miami Dade school district tried to ban? Well,…

July 6, 2006

A Perfect Daughter, Everywhere Except Inside

Wait for Me, by An Na, is wrenching novel about priorities, the past, selfishness and love. Mina’s mother wants her to be perfect: a…

July 6, 2006

The Ghosts in the Closet of Latin America

Marta adores her father Don Miguel Maldonado — loves him, with his highly emotional political diatribes, with his eloquent speeches against the General, with…

July 6, 2006

Fireball

Mental illness isn’t the usual topic of YA novels, but through the years it has slowly begun to lose its stigma. How All This…

July 6, 2006

Ideas sleeting through the Universe

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.– Euripides (484 BC – 406 BC). …or, they make a writer. And you know you’re…

July 6, 2006

Random Giddiness

Total timewaster: A Fuse #8 Production discovered this highly amusing and pointless book quiz. Which character are you most like? Just so you know……

July 5, 2006

Remember That Mills YA Term ‘Kernel of Hope?’

I always thought it was a little awful of me to get such a chuckle out of the term ‘kernel of hope’ or ‘sense…

July 4, 2006

Upslope of the Sea

YA author Betsy James‘ story of how she came to write The Seeker Chronicles, the three volume novel of Downslope, Upslope and the Hill…

July 4, 2006

Horn Book called it 'Interview with a Vampire for the Learner's Permit set.'

It was just a trip to the Laundromat. It shouldn’t have almost gotten her killed.When 16-year-old Kerry goes to the laundry to pick up…

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