Tanita S. Davis is the award-winning author of six novels for middle grade and young adult readers, including Serena Says, Peas and Carrots, and Happy Families, She is best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated and Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel Mare’s War, about two teens going on a road trip with their WWII veteran grandmother who tells them about her rebellious past. She grew up in California and was so chatty as a kid that her mother begged her to “just write it down.”

Her book, Happy Families, which she discussed on my blog, was banned from school libraries in North East Independent School District in TX in 2021, and challenged again in another district in TX in 2022.

Contact
Website: http://www.tanitasdavis.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/tanita_writes/
Blog: http://tanitasdavis.com/wp/

Books
Next book: The Science of Friendship; August, 2024
Most recent book: Figure It Out, Henri Weldon; 2023