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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Great Brain series. I loved those books, but now they require an appreciation of racial and culteral history which bumps them up an age group.[/quote]

Love those books too—I’m trying to think of examples of concerns.  I don’t remeber any non-whites in the books (about Utah around 1900). There’s discussion of how the Lutherans and the Mormons generally kept separate, with the few Catholics (which the author was) sort of floating between.  There’s a chapter or too about a Jewish traveling salesman who dies because none of the other religious groups really bother to make sure he’s okay, which I think the author meant as an allegory for the holocaust (as I think it was written in the 40s).  I haven’t re-read all of them, though—are there specific things you find concerning?  My kids have been re-reading them and I’d like to discuss them if they are problematic.
What’s most notable about those books is the frequency of fist fights among the boys—that’s how they settled everything![/quote]

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