Tag: Nancy Garden

Breaking Barriers: How Nancy Garden’s ‘Annie on My Mind’ Revolutionized YA Fiction

Children’s and young adult book author Nancy Garden was born on this day May 15, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1982, Nancy Garden’s groundbreaking novel, Annie on My Mind, hit the shelves of bookstores across the country. It was a time when young adult literature was dominated by heteronormative narratives, and LGBTQ+ representation was virtually …

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