However, even as recently as the 1990s, there have been novels and other ... niche of children's books that try to accurately but sanitarily explain pivotal parts of U.S. history to children.

Undead children ... the pages of 1990s kid lit: R.L. Stine’s Welcome to Dead House from the Goosebumps series, Christopher Pike’s Die Softly, and Stine’s Fear Street book Lights Out ...