Monday, March 9, 2015

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garder

Garden, N. (1982). Annie on my Mind (p. 234). Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Themes: Sexuality, School, Love

Characters: Liza, Annie, Sally and Mrs. Poindexter

Summary: 
Liza is at the museum admiring the architecture and hears someone singing. She finds the voice and meets Annie. They both are the same age but they attend different schools. Liza attends Fosters, a private school and is the school’s student council president. She finds Sally, a classmate, piecing students’ ears. Mrs. Poindexter finds out and calls Liza into her office. Mrs. Poindexter suspends Liza because she did not report the rule.

She and Annie set up a meeting at Cloisters and they agree Liza will attend public school with Annie. This is an eye opening experience, she see a boy with a chain around his neck.  Annie wrote Liza a letter expressing her feelings about her.

During Spring Break, Liza volunteers to house sit Ms. Widmer and Ms. Stevenson’s house.  Liza asks Annie to come over and they discover the teachers are gay. Sally and Ms. Baxter come by and catch Annie and Liza as well as the teachers’ living situation. The school fires the teachers and let Liza stay in school. In the end, Annie and Liza brake up but reconcile their relationship in college.



Staying with the theme of the book (homosexuality), another book to follow up can be Even Keeping you a Secret by Julie Anne Peters. 

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