Garden, Nancy. (1992). Annie on my Mind. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN: 978-0374404147
Awards: ALA Best Books for Young Adults (1982)
ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (1997)
ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
Bibliotherapeutic Usefulness: Homosexuality, Lesbians, Love
Genre: Fiction
Annotation: It is the 1970's when high school students Annie and Liza fall in love. Along with the excitement and wonder comes the extra challenge of being gay in a world not ready. They must decide how their choices will affect their lives.
Summary: This is a story of a middle class white girl, Eliza, making her way through a private high school. She is smart, popular, and class president. So, she is confused when she finds herself falling in love with free-natured Annie, a girl she meets at the museum. When the girls discover the love is mutual, they must contend with the many obstacles they face in life.
Evaluation: I had to keep in mind that the book was written in a time when it was much more difficult to be a gay teen. Liza and Annie's trials are one of the reasons our society has moved away from such prejudice, and it makes me thankful that our culture is more and more accepting of different ways of living.
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