Annie On My Mind

Garden, Nancy.  Annie On My Mind. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982.  

ISBN 9780374400118, 234 pages, paperback $8.00.  Ages 13 and up.

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Two teenage girls in New York City explore their growing romantic attachment, which threatens to disturb their families and communities.

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 Two teenage girls, Liza and Annie, meet in New York City and their close friendship becomes amorous. Although Annie has already self-identified as a lesbian, this realization is new and surprising for Liza, and jeopardizes her family relationships and ultimately her entire school community.  How will parents, teachers, and friends react as this relationship goes public, and what will attending different colleges on opposite sides of the country ultimately do to this young couple and their growing romance?

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1982 Booklist Reviewers' choice
1982 ALA Best Books
1983 ALA Best of the Best 1970-1983 
Booklist Best Books of the 1980s
Booksellers' Choice list, 1993
ALA Best Books for YAs for past 25 Years, 1994
One of the Best of the Best Books for YAs of the last 4 decades of the 20th Century, ALA, 2000.