TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winter,Jeanette
TI  - The librarian of Basra: a true story from Iraq 
SN  - 0152054456
U1  - 020/.92B 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Orlando, Fla.
PB  - Harcourt, Inc.
KW  - Baker, Alia Muhammad.
KW  - Librarians
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Baṣrah
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Juvenile literature
N1  - AD 640; Lexile; Accelerated Reader AR; LG; 3.2; 0.5; 83517
N2  - 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
ER  -