Burning_Up

Burning Up Changing the World The main character, Macey Claire, in the book, Burning Up, by Caroline B.Cooney, changed from a normal fifteen-year old to someone willing to make a difference. The story begins in Connecticut, and summer is just beginning. Macey has been known to spend her weekends with her grandparents living on Shell Road. The road is known throughout the town for its beauty and respectable people. On the same road, Austin’s grandparents live. Aus is a little bit older than Macey, but they both look forward to spending time together. His grandparents’ place has been his home for the past school year. This was led on by his parents’ troubles in their marriage. To finish up the school year, Macey’s class had been assigned a history project. There was a barn fire on Shell road in 1959; thus, Macey chose that as her topic. Casually, she started asking relatives and Austin’s grandparents questions, hoping to get a start. Much to her surprise, nobody seemed as interested as she and didn’t really want to talk about it. Many of the people she asked, including her teacher, suggested finding a new topic. During the school year, each student was required to have so many points burning, up, macey, fire, town, been, venita, started, school, grandparents, girl, told, time, road, people, out, mace, didn’t, church, year, teacher, mr, lot, little, known, just, help, having, find, decided, day, barn, austin’s, about, able, venita’s, topic, together