Texas county condemned for recategorizing book on colonization as fiction

A Texas County is under intense scrutiny after it recategorized a nonfiction book about colonization to its fiction section (stock image) - (Getty Images)

A Texas county’s decision to shelve a nonfiction children’s book about colonization in the fiction section is facing backlash.

Montgomery County Commission decided to reclassify Linda Coombs’ book Colonization and the Wampanoag Story as fiction in the seven libraries in the county — a move that has sparked criticism from the book’s publisher Penguin Random House and advocacy groups.