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: 3.90 · 13,868 ratings · 939 reviews · 33 distinct works · Similar authors
Annie on My Mind
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 10,203 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions
Good Moon Rising
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
Endgame
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
The Year They Burned the Books
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1999
Dove and Sword: A Novel of ...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2004
Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and G...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2007
My Sister, the Vampire
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
Prisoner of Vampires
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
Holly's Secret
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2000
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“There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male.”
Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

“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

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