Garden, Nancy (1938 - )

Genre: Children's Literature

Children's author Nancy Garden splits her time between her homes in Maine and Massachusetts. Garden has worked as in theater and as an editor. She has received the American Library Association Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for teens, the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award for defending her work against censorship and Katahdin Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Selected Bibliography

  • Annie on my mind 1992 Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people
  • Endgame 2006 about a school shooting
  • Hear us out!: lesbian and gay stories of struggle, progress and hope, 1950 to the present 2007
  • he year they burned the books 1999

Selected Resources