Emotionally realistic

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	• Annie on My Mind Nancy Garden Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2007 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 132 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Timless Beauty

What to say? I've loved this story ever since first reading it nearly ten years ago. I had pulled it off the shelf at my university's library at random -well, not completely. I was walking down an aisle and just had this funny feeling to pull out this book. Call it crazy, but it felt like the book that I've never seen before wanted me to read it. At first I was confused by the writing but read on. I'm glad I did and was soon rapt by every page. At the time, it had been a while after things didn't work out with a girl I really liked. I needed a way to understand her more, plus my heart was still sore. This book helped, plus this girl looked exactly like Liza which is what floored me when I first saw the front cover. I read it in secret. This was for me, you see. I soon bought my own copy. As time passed, I healed and my love for this book has changed as well. I often wondered what a sequel would be like. Then, recently, I found the audio read by Rebecca Lowman who really feels the characters and acts out each one wonderfully. Her voice is captivating and so closely matches how Liza and Annie sounded in my mind.
Whether to heal, to inspire or all in between, this is a great and timeless story that I still enjoy and recommend to all.

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Emotionally realistic

This is the first homosexual book that made me cry. It well-portrays the struggles and emotional aspect that most people go through in the process of identifying their own sexuality. It doesn't need a sexual description to bring out the passion between Annie and Liza. The readers can feel the hidden desire, the innocent feelings, and most importantly, love that were shared between the two young characters.

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A Must Read for All

I found this book because it was proclaimed a ground breaking book for homosexuality in teen. It interested me to read such a novel, and I have confidence that one day this book will be a classic.
It had that classic feel to a kind of outdated novel. The same you can feel from reading any "teen" novel that was written at least a decade before one's time as a teen themselves. It's a good feeling in a novel, a feels a tad historic.
Annie is adorable. She has a puffy fun personality, yet stays grounded and very real. I too, would fall in love with her. Liza is an a-typical trying to find herself girl. Yet, her adventure of finding herself and knowing what she wants is very heart warming.
The story was bliss but the true conflict does not come until the end. It is very frustrating once this comes about. Multiple times I wanted to throw the book across the room during this part. However, before that is absolutely lovely. I dreamed of living in the world that Annie and Liza created.
The setting was also enjoyable. Any book that takes place in New York City makes me smile. The two are constants at museums which I enjoyed as well. However, Liza's school, Foster, is absolutely dreadful. When they described it as being in an old housing building, I pictured my middle school. So the whole time, I pictured it as a very dingy place. Plus, her headmistress, Mrs. Pointdexter, is absolutely obnoxious.
Overall, I loved this book. It's heartwarming and bubbly, yet complete dishearting. But that gives it the opportunity to open eyes just as I'm sure the novel was written to do. Everybody should read this novel. The conservatives, the liberals, the young, and the old. This is a must read.

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Annie On My Mind

Annie On My Mind is an exceptional book. It really lets the reader see into the mind of a high school student dealing with feelings for the same sex. I know of many girls in the past and I'm sure of more in the future, have thought about being attracted to the same sex,and this book lets girls out there know that is okay. It doesn't not give only one side of the battle of the charcters,to admit that they are gay to family and friends , but to admit to themselves that they are who they are and that is best to love one another rather than fight it and cause themselves more pain. I would highly recomend this book to anyone looking to read a good book and to anyone who likes to see other's points of view to have a better understanding of what people of homosexuality go through.

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All Time Favorite

This is my all time favorite "lesbian" love story. I first read this book when I was around 15 years old. In the past 6 years since I first read it I have read it many more. I would recomend this book to anyone who is in their young teens and stuggling with their sexuality or for anyone who cares about someone who is going through the struggle or has recently come out of the closet.

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This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.

Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, ?Nancy Garden has the distinction of being the first author for young adults to create a lesbian love story with a positive ending. Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves.?

The 25th Anniversary Edition features a full-length interview with the author by Kathleen T. Horning, Director of the Cooperative Children?s Book Center. Ms. Garden answers such revealing questions as how she knew she was gay, why she wrote the book, censorship, and the book?s impact on readers ? then and now. Nancy Garden, recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of the picture book Molly?s Family (with pictures by Sharon Wooding) and many novels, including The Year They Burned the Books. She and her partner divide their time between small towns in Massachusetts and Maine. This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.

Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, ?Nancy Garden has the distinction of being the first author for young adults to create a lesbian love story with a positive ending. Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves.?

The 25th Anniversary Edition features a full-length interview with the author by Kathleen T. Horning, Director of the Cooperative Children?s Book Center. Ms. Garden answers such revealing questions as how she knew she was gay, why she wrote the book, censorship, and the book?s impact on readers?then and now. "The story of two young women who love each other. It is an honest portrayal of their love with an ending that is in keeping with, and worthy of, the rest of the book."?The Baltimore Sun

"Departs from the fact-packed preachiness of the problem novel to become instead a compelling story of two real and intriguing women. There have been many books for teenagers, fiction and nonfiction, that give lots of useful and accurate information about homosexuality; here's one that tells what it feels like, one that has, finally, romance."?School Library Journal

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