Burning up

Burning Up is a book about a teenage girl named Macy, who loves her little town. But when she gets an assignment for school, she needs a ride to the library. Getting into the car, she asks her grandpa about an old burnt down building across the street. He starts acting weird and mischievous like it was a big secret. When he doesn’t answer, the curiosity starts to kill her inside. The next day she starts to ask the teachers and people around. All of a sudden everybody, “doesn’t remember the incident.”  Having had the experience of being caught in a fire, she goes way deeper than her assignment requires. With the death of a new friend, she thrives to find the truth, finding out that a Native American girl was killed. Her boy wonder Austin gets all caught up in finding out what happened too. Then Austin finds an old gas tank in his grandpa’s garage and then learns the attitude his grandparents had against the blacks. He puts two and two together and they both realize that their little town outside of Cincinnati just might be discriminatory. Trying to find the truth they realize it was right in front of them both the whole time. That their town wasn’t segregated, but was still prejudiced. Finding out what happened they were both crushed. Then a giant twist appears, sweeping both of them off their feet.