Burning Up
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Praise for Burning Up
An ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults
“Cooney has produced another tantalizing dark secret for her protagonist and readers to unravel together.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Macey’s pursuit of the truth is compellingly chronicled.”
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“This thought-provoking story has a powerful message, effortlessly woven into the ordinary trappings of a teenager’s life.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Burning Up
Other Books by This Author
Novels by Caroline B. Cooney
The Lost Songs
Three Black Swans
They Never Came Back
If the Witness Lied
Diamonds in the Shadow
A Friend at Midnight
Hit the Road
Code Orange
The Girl Who Invented Romance
Family Reunion
Goddess of Yesterday
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Tune In Anytime
Burning Up
What Child Is This?
Driver’s Ed
Twenty Pageants Later
Among Friends
The Time Travelers, Volumes I and II
The Janie Books
The Face on the Milk Carton
Whatever Happened to Janie?
The Voice on the Radio
What Janie Found
What Janie Saw (an ebook original short story)
Janie Face to Face
The Time Travel Quartet
Both Sides of Time
Out of Time
Prisoner of Time
For All Time
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 1999 by Caroline B. Cooney
Cover art copyright © 2006 by Diane Fenster
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover by Delacorte Press in 1999.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this work as follows:
Cooney, Caroline B.
Burning up : a novel / by Caroline B. Cooney.
p. cm.
Summary: When a girl she had met at an inner city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
eISBN: 978-0-307-81891-1
[1. Racism—Fiction.] I. Title
PZ7.C7834 Bu 1999
[Fic]—dc22
98019343
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Macey dashed out of the high school, filled with the energy of Friday afternoon. She always had to run toward the weekend. The first thing she did on Friday was put distance between herself and the school. Macey was good at school, had friends, liked her teachers—and yet the end of every school week was such a relief.