tanita s. davis is the award-winning author of nine novels for young readers, including Figure It Out, Henri Weldon, Partly Cloudy, and Mare’s War, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and earned her a nomination for the NAACP Image Award. Tanita is a lifelong resident of Northern California.
As a tween, I was solely allowed to read whatever was “true”; stories found in nonfiction historical narratives, biographies, zoography, and travelogues. While the emotional truths one finds in fictio…
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