Originally Posted by Nik
my daughter read "strawberry girl" off of the accelerated reader list at her magnet school in 2nd or 3rd grade...talk about inappropriate...

"Classic" books that won awards back in the 40s and 50s are just full of inappropriateness. I was looking at the suggested reading list for one of the private schools near us, and "A Cricket in Times Square" was on it. That one got pulled from the giant ebay box-o-books, because the gratuitous racism completely overshadowed the story.