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This book won't burn

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Author:
Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer)
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Publication Date:
2024
Language:
English
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Points: 14
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? “[Ahmed] employs high stakes, increasing tensions, romantic near-misses, and adult hypocrisy to powerful effect.” –Publisher's Weekly, starred review

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspense novel about book banning, activism, and standing up for what you believe. 

After her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home, Noor Khan is forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school, away from everything and everyone she knows and loves.

Reeling from being uprooted and deserted, Noor is certain the key to survival is to keep her head down and make it to graduation. 

But things aren’t so simple. At school, Noor discovers hundreds of books have been labeled “obscene” or “pornographic” and are being removed from the library in accordance with a new school board policy. Even worse, virtually all the banned books are by queer and BIPOC authors. 

Noor can’t sit back and do nothing, because that goes against everything she believes in, but challenging the status quo just might put a target on her back. Can she effect change by speaking up? Or will small-town politics—and small-town love—be her downfall? 

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Anticensorship activists
Anticensorship activists -- Fiction
Books and reading
Books and reading -- Fiction
Censorship
Censorship -- Fiction
Divorce
Divorce -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
East Indian Americans
East Indian Americans -- Fiction
Families
Families -- Fiction
High school students
High school students -- Fiction
Intellectual freedom
Intellectual freedom -- Fiction
Libraries
Libraries -- Fiction
Muslims
Muslims -- Fiction
Prohibited books
Prohibited books -- Fiction
Romance
Romance fiction
School fiction
Young adult fiction
Young Adult Literature

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9780316547840
9780316548397
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.2, 14 Points

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