
Written by Caroline B. Cooney
A school project about an old barn fire uncovers a town's buried prejudice.
Fifteen-year-old Macey is spending the summer near her grandparents' quiet Connecticut town when a history project leads her to a barn that burned across the street decades ago. Nobody wants to talk about who set the fire, or why. As she digs into the past and loses someone close to her, Macey confronts racism in the town she loves, in her own family and in herself, and learns what it costs to look away.
From bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney comes the riveting new novel about hatred, the crime of indifference, and responsibility: Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare was looking forward to the summer, hoping for fun and romance with her neighbor's grandson, Austin. But when Macey decides to research the burning of a barn in her hometown for a school project, she finds that no one is willing to talk about what really happened that night. She has always loved her quiet, beautiful town where her grandparents live and her mother was raised. Will Macey be able to face the past and understand the present?
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