Winter, Jeanette, author, illustrator.
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, Inc., c2005.
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Notes:

• 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.
• St. Catherine Library’s Ruth Sawyer collection.

Subjects:

• Baker, Alia Muhammad — Juvenile literature.
• Librarians — Iraq — Baṣrah — Biography — Juvenile literature.
• Libraries — Destruction and pillage — Iraq — Baṣrah — Juvenile literature.
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 — Juvenile literature.
• Baker, Alia Muhammad.
• Librarians — Iraq — Baṣrah — Biography.
• Libraries — Destruction and pillage — Iraq — Baṣrah.
• Iraq War, 2003-2011

Requested by Olson, V.