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Book Review of The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 (My Name is America: A Dear America Book)

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I have been generally surprised at how fairly good the Dear America and Royal Diaries have been. I was disappointed with this, one of my first My Name is America books.

I was disappointed as a parent that this book mentions in passing a rumor that certain girls "are easy". I didn't like it because of this. Not what I want my son reading about. I felt the blood and shooting were portrayed in a reasonable way considering the subject matter of the book and the rest of the book was fairly decent.

I was highly disappointed that the author felt it necessary to say certain girls "were easy" in passing as a rumor and that it was mentioned/ referred to again later on.