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Winter, Jeanette.

The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq / written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter. - 1st ed. - Orlando : Harcourt, [2005] �2005. - p. : col. ill ; 28 cm.

Wilson's Children, October 2010. School Library Journal starred, January 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, January 2005. Book Links (A.L.A.), October 2009. Publisher's Weekly, December 2004. Booklist, December 2004. Horn Book, January 2005. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2005. Kirkus Review, December 2004. Wilson's Children. School Library Journal starred. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.).

During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.

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ISBN: 9780152054458 (hc.) 0152054456 (hc.) 1415575274 (BWI bdg.) 9781415575277

LCCN: 2004012969

Subjects--Personal Names:
Baker, Alia Muhammad--Juvenile literature.
Baker, Alia Muhammad.
Baker, Alia Muhammad.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Libraries--Destruction and pillage--Iraq--Ba�srah--Juvenile literature.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Juvenile literature.
Librarians--Iraq--Ba�srah--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Libraries.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Librarians.
Libraries.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Librarians--Biography.
Libraries.
Iraq War, 2003.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Iraq.

LC Class. No.: Z720.B24 / W56 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 020/.92 020/.92 B