I've reading lots of negative things about AG.
Marisol angers folks because her book says that her old neighborhood was full of crime and not safe for a kid to grow up in. This annoys some Mexican Americans who actually live in that neighborhood. Kirsten and her cousins have people up in arms because the books seenm to indicate that it's ok for the settlers to take land away from the Native Americans. I remember reading somewhere that if Kirsten had actually joined her new friend's tribe she would have starved to death with her new family. And Kaya bothers some people because her books paint such a rosy picture of her tribe's lifestyle--fast horses, freedom & adventure not starvation, persecution and death at the hands of the white man. I'm not sure how i feel about all of this. It seems to me that it's hard to be honest about the gory details of history without writing books that are too disturbing for kids. I'm not a parent but i don't think i'd be too quick to buy a child a book where Kaya starves to death or Kirsten ,at the age of 10, is so outspoken about the treatment of Native Americans that her father beats her to shut her up.