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  <name><![CDATA[Nancy Garden]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[A versatile writer, Nancy Garden has published books for middle grade readers and children as well as for teens, nonfiction as well as fiction. But her 1982 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 forty years. In 2003 the American Library Association gave the Margaret A. Edwards Award to Nancy Garden for lifetime achievement.
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  <title><![CDATA[Endgame]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Good Moon Rising]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Year They Burned the Books]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Prisoner of Vampires]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Molly's Family]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lark in the Morning]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Holly's Secret]]></title>
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