Annie On My Mind is a 1982 novel by Nancy Garden, telling the story of two 17 year old New York City girls, Annie and Liza, who meet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and become friends and lovers. Nancy Garden (born May 15, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author best known for Annie on My Mind, which was critically acclaimed but attracted controversy because of its homosexual characters. ... Look up English in Wiktionary, the free dictionary As an adjective, English refers to anything from or pertaining to England. ... Young adult (YA) literature, while having only been recognized as a legitimate genre for a relatively short time, is a collection of books that can range from science fiction to autobiography. ... A romance novel is a novel from the genre currently known as romance. ... Lesbian describes a homosexual woman. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine. ... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nancy Garden (born May 15, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author best known for Annie on My Mind, which was critically acclaimed but attracted controversy because of its homosexual characters. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location [[Image:|250px|250px|Location of City of New York, New York]] Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R... The central lobby of the museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York, United States. ...

Because of its lesbian theme, this was one of the fifty books most often challenged or banned in schools and libraries in the United States in the years 1990 to 1992. This article is about the year. ... 1992 (MCMXCII in Roman) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

As time passes, the girls become more and more attracted to one another, and eventually realize they are falling in love. They keep their relationship a secret until they are caught in bed together by a teacher from Liza's school. The relationship ends, as Liza is roughly interrogated by her family and school governors over her relationship with Annie, and eventually moves away to study at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. However, both retain fond memories of each other and reunite after time spent apart in separate colleges.

This book is recommended my many who have read it, because it sheds new light on a forgotten, painful subject, like an old children's book left on the chipped, pink and yellow painted shelf that once matched a child's room, before they grew up and started to experiment with pink blush, purple lipstick, turquoise eyeliner, navy mascara, and lime green eyeshadow to look like their favorite singer, before they experimented with boyfriends, love, kissing, and parties... The subject is like a shimmering, glassy pond in a small grove, where the child used to come and splash around in, to collect small tadpoles in, to just cool off in on a hot summer day with a small giggling friend, while sucking on ice-cold cherry popsicles that made their tongues bright red, but now is no longer occupied....even the fish swam away, after the child left the pond to swim in the aqua-chlorinated pool with red and white striped umbrellas over white plastic furniture, with ice cream and hot dogs and a locker room...with boys in their swimming trunks, wearing their new Oakleys and trying to look cool for the girls....the child is one of the girls.....the girls, the girls who are showing off their new hot pink polka dotted bikinis, their new suntains, new highlights in their hair...The subject is like the Velveteen Rabbit, once used and worn to the fabric, the small stitches that hold something once loved together...but now just dirty and dusty sitting on the chipped, pink and yellow shelf....