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The Librarian of Basra : A True Story of Iraq

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Alia Muhammad Baker is the 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 civillians - especially women - have little power, this true story about 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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020.92 WIN l

Publisher

New York : Harcourt Children's Books., 2005

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[30 p.] : ill. ; 28 cm.

Language

English

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9780152054458

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020.92

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Librarians -- Iraq -- Basrah -- Biography -- Juven
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage
Iraq War, 2003 -- Juvenile Literature

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