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The Librarian of Basra

A True Story from Iraq

By Winter, Jeanette

Publishers Summary:
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library 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.

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ISBN
978-0-15205-445-8
Publisher
Harcourt


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Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on January 1, 2005

In this true story, Winter tells of a dedicated librarian, Alia Muhammad Baker, who realizes the danger her library's collection is in when war comes to the Iraqi city of Basra in 2003. Illustrations show planes flying over the city, huge orange flames billowing up from the buildings, and silhouettes of people running from tanks. Alia, depicted as a middle-aged woman with a blue he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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