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Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer),

This book won't burn / Samira Ahmed. - Great Britain : Atom, 2024. - 374 pages ; 20 cm

Noor Khan is the new girl at school. Moving to the tiny town of Bayberry with her mother and sister after their family life is upended, she's determined to keep her head down and make it through her final year, unnoticed. While hiding out in her school library, Noor notices that hundreds of books are being removed from the shelves and boxed up: a new school policy banning books that parents object to. Worse, almost all the books being targeted are by queer and BIPOC authors. Outraged, Noor and her new friends decide to read some of the banned books out loud to their classmates, to protest this new policy at school. But in Bayberry, trouble is never far behind. Can Noor effect change by speaking up, while navigating the politics of small-town life? And can she trust the son of the school board president, who she finds herself falling for?

ISBN: 9780349125527 034912552X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Life change events--Juvenile fiction.
Moving, Household--Juvenile fiction.
Books and reading--Juvenile fiction.
Prohibited books.--Juvenile fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
First loves--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Young adult fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6