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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Annie on my mind by Nancy Garden

Garden, N. (1982). Annie on my mind. NY: FSG
A fiction story of two girls who meet at a museum and their friendship ends up growing much deeper. They try to keep it a secret from the family and friends but end up being discovered. Thou they don’t know how to start or how to go about it they find themselves having the face a lot of obstacles.

Liza is invited to attend an opening of Sally's ear-piercing business one of her classmates but much to her surprise she doesn’t deal with the fact of too much blood. When the school finds out she is ordered to see the headmistress Mrs. Poindexter in connection with Sally's ear piercing. Liza as a president of the student council was to report such incidents happening with their student body. Now Liza has to come to the Student Council committee and find what out if she will be expelled.  Then Liza and Annie exchange letters pronouncing their love for each other and their affair grows but is soon discovered and not encourage by the people around them. But they soon find encouragement from Ms. Widmer and Ms. Stevenson who advise them that people will always have opinions but that they have each other for support. In the University Liza calls Annie and they arrange to see each other during the holidays.

Other books with the same topic is The Gravity between us by Kristen Zimmer and Keeping you a secret by Julie Anne Peters. 




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