{"id":69463,"date":"2026-11-13T02:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=69463"},"modified":"2026-11-13T02:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:16:56","slug":"good-moon-rising-by-nancy-garden-all-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/good-moon-rising-by-nancy-garden-all-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (All Editions)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?s=Nancy+Garden\">Nancy Garden<\/a>&#8216;s <b>Annie on My Mind<\/b> is the classic lesbian young adult novel. It is so truthful and honest, it has been banned from many school libraries and even publicly burned in Kansas City. Her newest novel, <b>Good Moon Rising<\/b>, is also about a young teenage lesbian and is as moving and startling as <b>Annie<\/b>. Jan and Kerry are two aspiring actresses in high school. When they begin working on a production of <i>The Crucible<\/i> &#8212; not coincidentally about another kind of witchhunt &#8212; they find that they are at the center of a social and academic controversy. As always, Garden understands the problems of young people, the prevalence of social homophobia, and pain of being an outcast. <b>Good Moon Rising<\/b> is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the problems faced by gay youth today, or for that matter, the problems faced by gay people everywhere.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"lfw-genres\"><strong>Genre:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/category\/award-winner\/\">Award Winner<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/category\/ya-fiction-young-adult\/\">YA Fiction (Young Adult)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Garden&#8216;s Annie on My Mind is the classic lesbian young adult novel. It is so truthful and honest, it has been banned from many school libraries and even publicly burned in Kansas City. Her newest novel, Good Moon Rising, is also about a young teenage lesbian and is as moving and startling as Annie. &#8230; <a title=\"Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (All Editions)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/good-moon-rising-by-nancy-garden-all-editions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (All Editions)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4330,4352],"tags":[6809],"pub_year":[],"class_list":["post-69463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award-winner","category-ya-fiction-young-adult","tag-great"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (All Editions) - 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