Annie on My Mind: Amazon.ca: Nancy Garden: Books

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Garden's exceptionally well-rendered tale concerns two teenage girls who fall in love with each other. Ages 14-up.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"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

"Annie on My Mind was an eye-opener (maybe 'heartopener' is a better term)."--The Milwaukee Journal

"A tender, bittersweet love story."--Booklist

"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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5.0 out of 5 stars Grand Story!, Mar 29 2004

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Kah (Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Annie on My Mind (Mass Market Paperback)

Annie On My Mind is one of the best books I have ever read, and the first centering around two lesbians, who didn't exactly start out that way. Eliza and Annie are so real in this book, and their story just draws you in. I picked it up one night and didn't put it down until I finished it late the next morning. Believe it or not I cried at the end, and I don't normally do that for books. This is a must-read, trust me. You can't waste money on this book.

Ms. Widmer and Ms. Stevenson were great additions to the story as well, they make me think of two of my own teachers. Every last character is this book is so real!

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a phenominal story, April 20 2004

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MJ (Western Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

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After running search after search on the internet for books containing lesbian characters, I finally found Annie On My Mind. My goal was to find some sort of reassurance that I was not so strange and that there actually are people in the world like me. I figured the best way to do this was to see if books actually existed with lesbians as 'normal' main characters, and not simply obscure sex-starved sub-plot characters. Rather than finding a book with lesbian main characters, however, I found a love story about two girls. I wish now that I could force my parents, and anyone who has a problem with my sexuality, to read it because this book proves that being gay is not a bad thing. It is a great story that definatly comes with a moral: Love, no matter what type, is the only important part of any relationship.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Book About Love, April 14 2004

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oddknock "oddknock" (United States) - See all my reviews

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Annie on my Mind is the most beautiful love story I have ever read. This book is charming, honest and I recommend it to anyone, straight or homosexual. As I was reading the book, I kept thinking to myself, "I wish anyone who thinks homosexuality is immoral or disgusting would just read this. Maybe then they could understand that it is love." Annie on my Mind does not contain any erotic or sexual scenes, which makes this book a comfortable read for anyone who is not quite at ease with homosexuality.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, but not more.
I picked up Annie on My Mind because of the raving reviews that it received but also because it is considered a 'classic' among lesbian literature. Read more

Published on Nov 28 2008 by LadyEarlGrey

5.0 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Nancy Garden's ANNIE ON MY MIND, originally published in 1982, was recently re-released. (It includes an interview with the author herself. Read more

Published on Aug 26 2007 by TeensReadToo