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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55658292 Title: The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq Author: Jeanette Winter Publisher: New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2005] ©2005 ISBN/ISSN: 0152054456 9780152054458 1415575274 9781415575277 9780358141839 0358141834 OCLC:55658292

  
  

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The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq

Author:	Jeanette Winter
Publisher:	New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2005] ©2005
Series:	Reading rainbow, 153.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, the library where she works has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.  Read more...
Subjects	Baker, Alia Muhammad -- Juvenile literature. Librarians -- Iraq -- Baṣrah -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Iraq -- Baṣrah -- Juvenile literature. View all subjects
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