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 12, 2016

WRITER’S RITES: Creatives in a Vicious World

Did you catch this year’s Newbery winner on NPR the other day? Kwame Alexander was reflecting on the recent police violence in the U.S.,…

July 6, 2016

Turning Pages Reads: TELL THE WIND AND FIRE by SARAH REES BRENNAN

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! I tried very, very hard in high school English to read Dickens. I hated Dora. I loathed…

July 4, 2016

Reading In Tandem: THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU, by BETH KEPHART

It’s July 4th! Maybe by now you’re tired of sunshine, patriotic colors, smoke from the bbq or your neighbors, relatives, and friends, and would…

July 1, 2016

Turning Pages Reads: TWISTED by Hannah Jayne

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! Every adult summer of my life, I look back with disgust on the summers I squandered, wishing…

June 14, 2016

Turning Pages Reads: GIRL IN THE SHADOWS, by GWENDA BOND

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! Full disclosure: Gwenda is a blog buddy, and she and AF share the same agent, so this…

June 7, 2016

Turning Pages Reads: DARA PALMER’S MAJOR DRAMA by EMMA SHEVAH

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! Here’s one of the infrequent middle grade novels we review here on this site; I chose it…

June 1, 2016

Turning Pages Reads: AND I DARKEN, by KIERSTEN WHITE

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! Readers who enjoy a sprawling fantasy epic will be glad to see another female-centric contender on the…

May 28, 2016

WRITER’S RITES: Nobody’s got time for that

May 27, 2016

Proof that We Actually Exist

AF and I met up the other day at our grad school alma mater, Mills College, to speak to the graduate and undergraduate writers…

May 24, 2016

Surveying Stories: The risks of rage in Robin Stevens’ Wells & Wong mysteries

Literature trends toward patterns or themes which repeat — sometimes because that’s just what happens to hit the market at a given time, and…

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