A Montgomery County committee charged with reviewing and vetting certain library books was condemned by an international publishing company after allegations it incorrectly categorized a historical children's book as fiction.

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Montgomery County committee incorrectly categorized historical book as fiction, publisher says

Coombs is a historian and author from the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah. She wrote children's books for a museum series that highlighted aspects of southern New English tribal cultures, according to Penguin Random House.

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