Nancy Garden





Nancy Garden

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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


Average rating: 3.87 · 7,484 ratings · 732 reviews · 33 distinct works
Annie on My Mind
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 5,227 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions
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Endgame
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Good Moon Rising
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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The Year They Burned the Books
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1999
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Dove and Sword: A Novel of ...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions
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Molly's Family
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2004
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Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and G...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007
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Prisoner of Vampires
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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My Sister, the Vampire
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Holly's Secret
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2000
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More books by Nancy Garden…
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Fours Crossing (3 books)
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3.9411764705882355 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
Mystery of the Night Raiders Mystery of the Midnight Menace Mystery of the Secret Marks Mystery of the Kidnapped Ki...
Monster Hunters (5 books)
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“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

“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

“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

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