Garden, N. (1982). Annie on my
mind. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
Eliza, Liza, meets Annie at a museum
in October of her senior year. The 17
year old girls begin a friendship. Liza
goes to a private school that is having struggles with their funding and being
the student council president she is expected to maintain a higher standard and
be above reproach. As she struggles with
suspension for not following the “spirit of the rules” at school her friendship
with Annie continues to grow and as the year progresses Liza struggles with her
feelings for Annie as they deepen. Both
girls contemplate with their feelings for each other and how to express those
feelings, but when an opportunity to be alone presents itself they can’t
resist.
Garden writes a realistic fiction
book about a budding lesbian relationship between two high school girls. She lets the reader learn about the story
through a series of flashbacks from Liza’s point of view as she comes to term
with her feelings for Annie and her guilt at the choices she made cost people
their jobs. Throughout the book Garden
emphasizes the theme of love with Liza just wanting to let people know she and
Annie love each other and no one influenced them and it is not right that they
should be judged for who they are. I would suggest this for 9th grade and up.
Similar books:
Carry
On by Rainbow Rowell
Keeping
you a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
http://dreaminginbooks.blogspot.com/2011/04/interview-nancy-garden-on-annie-on-my.html author interview
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