

I would venture to guess that that passage would NEVER be printed in any children's book published as recently as 2014.

Now, with their sneering, blood-smeared faces, they looked like things from one of Roddy's intergalactic virtual reality games." Now how does that passage sit with you? Sounds f***** racist to me. Everyone else I know is a blend.The Zarouqs, however, are pure African Sudanese stock, with coiled black hair, black eyes, and skin so dark it looks like an oil slick.So to me, on a normal day, the pitch-black Zarouqs were strange. Let's play a little game here: "Omari and Ayeesha are virtually the only pure black people my age I've ever met. They have listened to the audio versions of all of Stuart Gibbs books more times than I can count and I have never taken any real issue with anything in those books. Due to streaming availability, they actually listened to the second and third books in this series before getting to listen to this first one. My kids love the Spy School series as well as the Fun Jungle series.
