Books Incorrectly Categorized by Libraries as Children's Books

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A book that you've found in the children's section of some library that would be more suitable in another section. The reason you consider the book wrongly assigned may be its unsuitable content or simply that it obviously "fits" better in some other section. A reason must be given for the book to be accepted. The proper category for the book must also be given.
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The Wreckers
tekijä: Iain Lawrence
650 jäsentä
13 arvostelua
½ 3.7
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themulhern: See review: https://www.librarything.com/work/347535/reviews/228848088 . The part where the teenage hero has to leave his father tied up in a pipe having his toes eaten by rats, and many other tough incidents, make this a YA book.
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The Winter Pony
tekijä: Iain Lawrence
41 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 3.5
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themulhern: Just too much suffering and slaughter in this one. The cover illustration is a bit deceptive.
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Blood and germs : the civil war battle against wounds and disease
tekijä: Gail Jarrow
39 jäsentä
3 arvostelua
4
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themulhern: A good book, but the wheelbarrow full of severed limbs, soldiers with fatal gangrene, one young Union soldier starved to death in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp all make this a a YA book.
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Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections: Man-Of-War
tekijä: Stephen Biesty
510 jäsentä
4 arvostelua
4.2
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themulhern: There is one one-page spread where a sailor is being tortured to death. Another page shows a battle scene, legs gone, people screaming, amputations.
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The Smugglers
tekijä: Iain Lawrence
325 jäsentä
4 arvostelua
4
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themulhern: This sequel to Lawrence's "The Wreckers" is written for the same age level as that book and definitely belongs in the YA section.
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The Buccaneers
tekijä: Iain Lawrence
220 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
3.8
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themulhern: This is a sequel to Lawrence's "The Wreckers" and is in some ways even more unsettling. Belong is YA.
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The Convicts: The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy, Book I
tekijä: Iain Lawrence
222 jäsentä
7 arvostelua
½ 3.6
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themulhern: The prostitution, the death of the naive teenager from the country by drowning early in the book, make it much more suitable for the YA section.
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Charles Darwin and the Mystery of Mysteries
tekijä: Susan Pearson
29 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
½ 3.7
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themulhern: Nothing inappropriate for children in this book, just dry and dense. Where there is YA non-fiction, belongs there. 128 pages, black and white photographs for illustration.
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Living in the Time of Jesus of Nazareth
tekijä: Peter Connolly
239 jäsentä
3 arvostelua
½ 4.3
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themulhern: While lavishly illustrated, the vocabulary in the text makes no concession to that of a chlld, while the description of crucifixion is terrifying.