Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman Teen/Young Adult Avery Curran channels the indelible

Avery Curran channels the indelible ambience and intrigue of the classic boarding school novel while turning the beloved genre on its head in this visceral

only to discover a powerful magic that’s been lying dormant—and a forbidden love she can’t resist

and Misha makes Felicity wish for a world where she's free to be her true self

- Rebecca Ross Books

author of The Swarm

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman Teen/Young Adult Avery Curran channels the indelibleThe first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more. Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from