The librarian of Basra
Subtitle: a true story from Iraq
By: written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter.
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Orlando, Fla
Language: eng
Subjects: Baker, Alia Muhammad -- Juvenile literature; Librarians -- Iraq -- Baṣrah -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Iraq -- Baṣrah -- Juvenile literature; Iraq War, 2003 -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: 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.