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 4, 2006

Journalistic Integrity?

Leslie’s Journal is a novel which, at first glance, seems to be the story of a teen who is on top of her game….

July 4, 2006

Learning to Fly

It’s a rare person in the remote town of Hunter’s Gap who knows anything about journalism. M. Taylor Armstrong-Brown isn’t from Hunter’s Gap. She’s…

July 4, 2006

Turn of the Century

Another historical fiction coming-of-age novel is Norah Perez’s One Special Year, which tells the tale of Jen McAllister in the first year of the…

July 4, 2006

Incivil War

Author Ann Rinaldi is practically a household name in terms of children’s and young adult historical fiction. Rinaldi’s research and meticulous recreation of historical…

July 4, 2006

You May Be Right, I May Be Crazy… But…

There’s a moment during every momentous occasion in life where you ask yourself, “Should I still be doing this?” Usually it’s right when things…

July 4, 2006

Blogging from the smoke of Edit Hell

Happy Chinese Pyrotechnics Day! Edit Hell continues, which is a bad thing, since not a lot of work is going to get done today,…

June 29, 2006

Wolf? Man? Wolfman?

Though this novel by Vivian Vande Velde is now out of print,The Changeling Prince can be found in the library in paperback version, and…

June 29, 2006

Dying of Shame

YA novels about different countries often focus on the exoticized features of their culture, but playwright and first-time YA novelist Allan Stratton doesn’t go…

June 27, 2006

Grrrl Power

Thanks to Seren for giving me a heads up about Salon’s Broadsheet kudos to New Moon Magazine for Girls. I’ve blogged about these fine…

June 27, 2006

Westerfield Rides Again – on a hoverboard

My camping out at the library paid off in me being one of the first to read Specials, the last of the Uglies trilogy…

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