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Annotation: Annie and Liza discover their romantic feelings and how their feelings have the power to impact the world around them.
Annie On My Mind
by Nancy Garden
A revolutionary piece of GLBTQ literature, Annie On My Mind follows Liza as she realizes her feelings for Annie and how they impact her understanding of herself.
“I went downstairs to Dad’s encyclopedia and looked up HOMOSEXUALITY, but that didn’t tell me much about any of the things I felt. What struck me most, though, was that, in the whole long article, the word ‘love’ wasn’t used even once. That made me mad; it was as if whoever wrote the article didn’t know that gay people actually love each other. The encyclopedia writers ought to talk to me, I though as I went back to bed; I could tell them something about love.”
Liza has everything going for her; she’s student body president and planning on pursuing her dreams of attending MIT and becoming an architect. When she meets Annie at the Metropolitan Museum of Art their friendly magnetism quickly becomes an intense passion that neither of them had expected. For the two lovers their senior year of high school is a fairy tale story until a teacher discovers them together and everything suddenly and devastatingly falls apart.
Liza’s powerful conflict keeps the drama going to the very last page. Join Liza and Annie as they discover the definition of “love.”
"The story of two young women who love each other. It is an honest portrayal of their love with an ending that is in keeping with, and worthy of, the rest of the book."--The Baltimore Sun
"Annie on My Mind was an eye-opener (maybe 'heartopener' is a better term)."--The Milwaukee Journal
"A tender, bittersweet love story."--Booklist
"Departs from the fact-packed preachiness of the problem novel to become instead a compelling story of two real and intriguing women. There have been many books for teenagers, fiction and nonfiction, that give lots of useful and accurate information about homosexuality; here's one that tells what it feels like, one that has, finally, romance."--School Library Journal
Boolist Reviewers' Choice, Gay Book Award nominee, Golden Kite Award, ALA Best Books 1982, ALA Best of the Best 1983, Booklist Best Books of the 1982, Booksellers' Choice List 1993, ALA Best Books for YAS for Past 25 Years 1994, Mock Printz Award 1982 in contest held at ALA's Midwinter in 2002
Check out Nancy Garden's website for a list of her books, useful links, and information about school and library visits.
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