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* {{Squick}}: Caxton plans to take over Green Knowe. His plans include marrying ''nine-year-old'' Susan.

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* {{Squick}}: Caxton plans to take over Green Knowe. His plans include marrying ''nine-year-old'' Susan.Susan.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In the third book, the children are refugees from Communism. This, along with references to Khrushchev, clearly place this book in TheFifties.
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* {{Squick}}: Caxton plans to take over Green Knowe. His plans include marrying ''nine-year-old'' Susan.
* TheyJustDidntCare: In the fifth book, the author admits that she simply made up the witchcraft depicted in the story.

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* {{Squick}}: Caxton plans to take over Green Knowe. His plans include marrying ''nine-year-old'' Susan.
* TheyJustDidntCare: In the fifth book, the author admits that she simply made up the witchcraft depicted in the story.
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* NoYay: Caxton plans to marry Susan. Caxton is a grown man. Susan is nine years old.
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* FridgeHorror:
** To a child reading the second book, Stefton and Caxton's treatment of Jacob is pretty nasty; it's even worse, however, from the point of view of an adult who is aware of the racial context and overtones.
** Caxton's plan to marry nine-year-old Susan is even worse to an adult, who knows what people do when they are married.
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Moved to a dedicated NF page.


* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: In the fifth book, when Melanie sends a curse to Tolly's grandmother, carved on the skin of a child's hand.
** The maggots and snakes also count as this.
** The scene in the sixth book, when the Saxons are slaughtering the Britons.
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* {{Squick}}: Caxton plans to take over Green Knowe. His plans include marrying ''nine-year-old'' Susan.

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* {{Squick}}: Caxton plans to take over Green Knowe. His plans include marrying ''nine-year-old'' Susan.Susan.
* TheyJustDidntCare: In the fifth book, the author admits that she simply made up the witchcraft depicted in the story.
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Added DiffLines:

* FridgeHorror:
** To a child reading the second book, Stefton and Caxton's treatment of Jacob is pretty nasty; it's even worse, however, from the point of view of an adult who is aware of the racial context and overtones.
** Caxton's plan to marry nine-year-old Susan is even worse to an adult, who knows what people do when they are married.

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