She, along with her younger brother, Chad, attends Foster Academy, a private school nearby, which is facing financial trouble, and is the student council president there.

She and her boyfriend, Walt, who also attends the school, become the student leaders of the drive to help Foster Academy's financial difficulties.

Liza is the student body president at her private school, Foster Academy, where she is working hard to get into MIT and become an architect.

Despite their different backgrounds and life goals, the two girls share a close friendship that quickly blossoms into love.

Liza soon realizes that, although she has always felt different, she hadn't considered her sexual orientation until she fell in love with Annie.

The two girls stay at the house together, but in an unexpected turn of events, a Foster Academy administrator discovers Liza and Annie together.

However, Ms. Stevenson and Ms. Widmer, who are outed as gay during the process due to Sally's false testimony about their influence on Liza, are fired.

After their initial shock at discovering the girls together, the teachers are very supportive and go out of their way to reassure Liza not to worry about their dismissal.

In a happy ending, Liza's reevaluation of her relationship while at college and her corresponding acceptance of her sexual orientation allow the two girls to reunite.

This narration occurs just before the winter break at both of their colleges, and Liza finds herself unable to finish or mail the letter she has been working on.

[7] In 1993, the LGBTQ organization Project 21 donated Annie on My Mind, along with Frank Mosca's All-American Boys, to 42 high schools in the Kansas City area.

[8] In response, the American Civil Liberties Union joined several families and a teacher and sued the school district for removing the book.

He ruled Annie on My Mind to be educationally suitable, and called its removal an unconstitutional attempt to "prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion".

[9][8] On December 29, 1999, the school district announced it would not appeal the court's decision, and restored Annie on My Mind to library shelves.

[10] In 1991, as part of BBC Radio 5's programming for gay teenagers, producer Anne Edyvean directed a dramatization of the novel, written by Sarah Daniels.