The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq /

The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq / written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter.

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-stri...

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Main Author: Winter, Jeanette.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Orlando, FL : Harcourt, [2005]
Subjects:
Baker, Alia Muhammad > Juvenile literature.
Baker, Alia Muhammad.
Librarians > Iraq > Baṣrah > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Libraries > Destruction and pillage > Iraq > Baṣrah > Juvenile literature.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Juvenile literature.
Librarians > Iraq > Baṣrah > Biography.
Libraries > Destruction and pillage > Iraq > Baṣrah.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.

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Call Number: 020.92 .W7855 2005
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