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Author:

Winter, Jeanette, illustrator. illustrator.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Subject:

Baker, Alia Muhammad--Juvenile literature.
Baker, Alia Muhammad.
Librarians--Bạsrah--Bạsrah--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Libraries--Destruction and pillage--Bạsrah--Bạsrah--Juvenile literature.
Iraq War, 2003--Juvenile literature.
Librarians.
Libraries.
Iraq War, 2003.

Summary:

Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For 14 years, her library has been a sanctuary for those who love books. But now war has come, and Alia fears the library will be destroyed. When her government refuses to help, Alia and her friends takes matters into their own hands, secretly moving 30,000 books to every shelf and corner in their homes. In a war-stricken country, where women have little power, this true story of one woman's struggle to save her community's greatest treasures reminds us all how the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.

ISBN:

0358141834
9780358141839

Locations:

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)