Welcome to my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours Book Tour for Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins! by Karina Evans. This sounds like a fun middle grade to pick up over the summer. Curious what others thought? Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the tour schedule for other content creators.
Meet Author
Karina Evans is a children’s author from Santa Barbara, California. She is represented by Jessica Mileo at InkWell Management.
Karina studied English at the University of Delaware before starting a career in the entertainment industry. She works in marketing for Sony Pictures and has previously worked for Lucasfilm and Paramount Pictures.
Some of Karina’s favorite things are: See’s Candies, The Amazing Race, singing show tunes in the car, and volleyball. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two mischievous cats, Sir Pounce and Taika.
About The Book
Title: Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins!
Author: Karina Evans
Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Publishing Date: April 19th, 2022
Page Length: 304
Genre: Contemporary
Age Range: Middle Grade
Synopsis:
Debut author Karina Evans gives modern-day readers their own version of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret with a fun romp about friendship, puberty, and growing up.
Twelve-year-old Tahlia Wilkins is ready to kick off the perfect summer at the popular kid’s pool party. But when the Red Goddess of Panties, aka her first period, arrives 24 hours before the pool party, it messes up all her plans. To make matters worse, her mom is out of town, and there’s no way she’s going to ask her dad for help! Tahlia always feared that growing up would be tough, but this is just not fair.
In order to save herself from total embarrassment, it will take all of Tahlia and her best friend Lily’s scheming to keep her reputation—and her favorite jeans—from being ruined. Sneak off to the grocery store only to have the clerk price check your “goods” over the loudspeaker? Check. Trick your mature teenage neighbor into letting you use her bathroom to ‘rehome’ some tampons? Check. Take a dip into a fountain to ‘borrow’ some quarters for a bathroom period product dispenser? Check, check, check!
With the hilarious and heartwarming tone of Dork Diaries and the critically-acclaimed movie Eighth Grade, Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins! is a coming-of-age middle-grade novel about growing up, in all of its awkward glory.
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Tour Schedule
Blog Schedule
April 18th
Whispering Stories – Review & Favorite Quotes
April 19th
Kait Plus Books – Interview
Cindy’s Love of Books – Review
April 20th
Nine Bookish Lives – Promotional Post
April 21st
Stuck in Fiction – Interview
The Book Dutchesses – Promotional Post
PopTheButterfly Reads – Review
April 22nd
Justice For Readers – Promotional Post
April 23rd
Melancholic Blithe – Interview & Top 5 Reasons to Read Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins
Twirling Book Princess – Promotional Post
April 24th
the nutty bookworm reads alot – Review
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April 18th
writingrosereads – Promotional Post
April 19th
hodophile_z – Review & Favorite Quotes
April 20th
ninebookishlives – Blogger’s Choice
April 21st
feliciareads11 – Blogger’s Choice
popthebutterfly – Blogger’s Choice
April 22nd
bhaneereads_ – Top 5 Reasons to Read Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins
justiceforreaders – Blogger’s Choice
April 23rd
booking.with.janelle – Review & Favorite Quotes
April 24th
tbrandbeyond – Promotional Post
Nine Bookish Lives 
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