Liza and Annie are two high school seniors who find that they have fallen in love with each other. They hide their love for one another from their friends and families. Eventually, their secret is found out my a classmate and school employee. Things turn out OK for the girls, but a pair of teachers who are also lesbians are fired from their posts.
I absolutely adored this book and I think today's high schoolers would too. Garden essentially leads readers through the entire process of falling in love. I feel like I know these girls. I feel like I know what it's like for someone (gay or straight) to fall in love. I feel like I can appreciate the struggle of the gay community even more than I already do. These two fictitious teenage lesbians illustrate the summer's celebratory phrase "love wins". Perhaps in time, our nation will continue to grow to accept same-sex couples and eventually I hope a book like this would end up as a regular read in high school curriculum. It's one of the best love stories I've ever read and it's what teens in a world of divorce and one-night stands need to learn about what true love is and what it takes. Liza and Annie have made an art of falling in and maintaining love. Kohlberg's concept of postconventional moral development is present in this novel because the girls find out that the social rules about homosexuality aren't necessarily "right".
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