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Last updated on: April 1, 2010

A versatile writer, Nancy Garden has published books for middle grade readers and children as well as for teens, nonfiction as well as fiction. But her 1982 novel Annie on My Mind, the story of two high school girls who fall in love with each other, has brought her more attention than she wanted when it was burned in front of the Kansas City School Board building in 1993 and banned from school library shelves in Olathe, Kansas, as well as other school districts. A group of high school students and their parents in Olathe had to sue the school board in federal district court in order to get the book back on the library shelves. Today the book is as controversial as ever, in spite of its being viewed by many as one of the most important books written for teens in the past forty years. In 2003 the American Library Association gave the Margaret A. Edwards Award to Nancy Garden for lifetime achievement.

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Novels

The Loners (1972)

Annie on My Mind (1982)

Peace, O River (1986)

Lark in the Morning (1991)

Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc (1995)

Good Moon Rising (1996)

The Year They Burned the Books (1999)

Holly's Secret (2000)

Meeting Melanie (2002)

Endgame (2006)

Books for Younger Readers

What Happened in Marston? (1971)

Maria's Mountain (1981)

Fours Crossing (1981)

Favorite Tales from Grimm (1982)

Watersmeet (1983)

Prisoner of Vampires (1984)

The Door Between (1987)

Case # 1: Mystery of the Night Raiders (1987)

Case # 2: Mystery of the Midnight Menace (1988)

Case # 3: Mystery of the Secret Marks (1989)

My Sister the Vampire (1992)

Case # 4: Mystery of the Kidnapped Kidnapper (1994)

My Brother the Werewolf (1995)

Case # 5: Mystery of the Watchful Witches (1995)

The Case of the Stolen Scarab (2003)

Molly's Family (2004)

Nonfiction for Teens

Berlin: City Split in Two (1971)

Nonfiction for Younger Readers

Vampires (1973)

Wherewolves (1973)

Witches (1975)

Devils and Demons (1976)

Fun With Weather Forecasting (1977)

The Kid's Code and Cipher Book (1981)

Serial Novels

The Secret of Smith's Hill (1999)

Novels for Adults

Nora & Liz (2002)

Short Stories

Parents' Night (1994)

Loving Megan (2002)

Hear Us Out: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present (2007)

Essays

Gay Books for Teens & Kids: Coming into Their Own? (2001)

Essays for Educators

Annie on My Mind (1988)

Unfinished Journey: Books for the Next Generation (1991)

Dick and Jane Grow Up Gay: The Importance of (YA) Fiction (1992)

Banned: Lesbian and Gay Kids' Books Under Fire (1994)

Gay Youth Book Boom (1994)

Annie on Trial: How It Feels to Be an Author of a Challenged Book (1995)

Annie on Trial: How It Feels to Be an Author of a Challenged Book (1996)

Censorship Update! A Report from Nancy Garden (1996)

Gay Fiction for Kids: Is Anyone Out There Publishing It? (1997)

A Writer's Perspective on Censorship (2000)

Writing for the Invisible Reader (2000)

Foreword (2000)

An Imaginary Interview on the Delicate Subject of a Moral Approach to Writing Children's Books (Based on Arguments Raised in Real Life) (2001)

Dear Teachers (2001)

Writing About Gay and Lesbian Characters in a Changing World (2005)

General Awards

2000 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement (2003)

Katahdin Award, Maine Library Association (2005)

Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame Inductee (2007)
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