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Cooney, Caroline B.

Burning Up

231 pp. | Delacorte | February, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32318-2 $$15.95
(4) YA Macey, a privileged Connecticut teenager, begins researching a fire that destroyed a local home in 1959. Her investigation suggests that the fire was meant to drive out the town's first African-American teacher, and that the city's elders--including her own grandparents--were complicit in the crime. Despite some powerful scenes, Cooney's facile prose doesn't always do justice to the important subject matter.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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