Nancy Garden

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born

Boston, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.nancygarden.com/

genre

Young Adult, Children's Books, Gay & Lesbian

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A versatile writer, Nancy Garden has published books for children as well as for teens, nonfiction as well as fiction. But her novel Annie on My Mind, the story of two high school girls who fall in love with each other, has brought her more attention than she wanted when it was burned in front of the Kansas City School Board building in 1993 and banned from school library shelves in Olathe, Kansas, as well as other school districts. A group of high school students and their parents in Olathe had to sue the school board in federal district court in order to get the book back on the library shelves. Today the book is as controversial as ever, in spite of its being viewed by many as one of the most important books written for teens in the past...more

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Books by Nancy Garden

Average rating: 3.87 · 7,484 ratings · 732 reviews · 33 distinct works

	Annie on My Mind 3.90 avg rating — 5,227 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Endgame 3.75 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Good Moon Rising 3.62 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Year They Burned the Books 3.54 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc 3.67 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Molly's Family by Nancy Garden, Sharon Wooding (Illustrations) 3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Prisoner of Vampires 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	My Sister, the Vampire 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Holly's Secret 3.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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Series by Nancy Garden

Fours Crossing (3 books)
by Nancy Garden

3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings

Monster Hunters (5 books)
by Nancy Garden

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

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Quotes by Nancy Garden

“The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

27 people liked it

“The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

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14 people liked it

“It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

10 people liked it

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Polls

Which Of These CENSORED Books Would You Like To See As One Of Our Group Read Options For The Spring 2010 Challenge?

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

46 votes, 18.1%

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

41 votes, 16.1%

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

35 votes, 13.8%

Forever byJudy Blume

30 votes, 11.8%

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

30 votes, 11.8%

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

24 votes, 9.4%

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

22 votes, 8.7%

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

10 votes, 3.9%

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

9 votes, 3.5%

The Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton

7 votes, 2.8%

254 total votes

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