The Basora Librarian

By Jeanette Winter

Subjects: Libraries, Juvenile literature, Biography, Iraq war, 2003-2011, juvenile literature, Iraq, juvenile literature, Iraq War, 2003, Librarians, Bibliotecarios, Biografía, Materiales en español, Iraq war, 2003-2011, Destruction and pillage, Iraq War, 2003-, Spanish language materials, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Literatura juvenil, Bibliotecas, Libraries, juvenile literature, Destrucción y saqueo, Guerra de Irak, 2003, Iraq War (2003-2011) fast (OCoLC)fst01802311

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