Davis, Tanita S.: - nTanita S. Davis is the award-winning author of six novels for middle grade and young adult readers, including Serena Says, Peas and Carrots, Happy Families, and Mares War, which was a Coretta Scott King Award Honor book and earned her a nomination for the NAACP Image Award. She grew up in California and was so chatty as a kid that her mother begged her to just write it down. Now shes back in California, doing her best to keep writing it all down. www.tanitasdavis.comn