So when Izzy and Marcus are paired together to perform a swing dance routine for a gym project

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner

the last thing she expects is for the real-life version of her fake boyfriend to show up in town asking why they "broke up"

and becomes romantically entangled with her next-door neighbor Whit

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery Julie Flett So when Izzy and MarcusA Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye opening rethinking of nineteenth century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor. The industrializing North and the agricultural Souththats how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early nineteenth century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss