# This Book Won't Burn

**Author:** Samira Ahmed
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Page count:** 302
**Genre:** Young Adult Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780349125510`
**ISBN-10:** `0349125511`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/this-book-wont-burn
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

'Blazes with searing honesty and unflinching emotional truth' Becky Albertalli, award-winning author of SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA 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 in. 'Reading is dangerous because it shows us the truth. Words give us power; that's why some adults want to silence us' 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 

## Where this book is assigned

### Great Lakes Great Books Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award 2025-26 honor book (official GLGBA winner press release, announced March 7, 2026 at the MRA Annual Conference) — 9-12 division](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award 2025-26 honor book (official GLGBA winner press release, announced March 7, 2026 at the MRA Annual Conference) — 9-12 division](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award 2025-26 honor book (official GLGBA winner press release, announced March 7, 2026 at the MRA Annual Conference) — 9-12 division](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award 2025-26 honor book (official GLGBA winner press release, announced March 7, 2026 at the MRA Annual Conference) — 9-12 division](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)

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