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.

June 14, 2006

A SUMMER READ: Twilight

I remember I went on and on and on about Robin McKinley’s novel, Sunshine, and thought I would never like another vampire novel nearly…

June 14, 2006

SUMMER READS: Not Your Mother's Faeries

I can’t imagine how I’ve never posted anything by Holly Black before, but somehow I missed posting my review of Tithe! Well, no worries….

June 14, 2006

Coming of Age In So Many Ways

Going for the Record is a tough novel to read, in some ways, but I was really glad to read it. The author, Julie…

June 14, 2006

About Her Mom, Mostly

I picked up C.S. Adler’s novel, Shadows on Little Reef Bay, the other day in the library because I always pick up a random…

June 14, 2006

Unlucky Ad Placement

There’s a sort of fairytale inplausibility about Kate Brian’s novel, Lucky T, that normally would have made me smile. A novel that includes romance…

June 13, 2006

UnderCover Girls and King Dorks

Oh, man, is it ONLY Tuesday!? I need a vacation already. Actually, I’ve just read that the U. of Hawai’i at Manoa is having…

June 10, 2006

Once upon a time, in Vermont…

Witness, but Karen Hesse, is a gripping story, told in blank verse form, of a Vermont town in 1924 who suffered an incursion of…

June 9, 2006

Writing Emotionally

Though A.Fortis talked about this one before, I wanted to definitely encourage anyone who hasn’t yet had a chance to read Joyce Maynard’s The…

June 9, 2006

Randomly

I’ve been whinging about the dearth of multicultural children’s lit. Aside from Mitali Perkins, whom we’ve gushed about before on this site, I am…

June 9, 2006

It’s the Mother of All Reading Weekends!

Every once in awhile I find new bloggers on my favorite topic, YA and Children’s Books, and I get a warm fuzzy. I’ve got…

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