Author(s): Jeanette Winter
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 32
Publisher: Juventud
Language: English,
Date Published: 2007-03-27
Dimensions: 208.28 x 281.94 x 10.16mm
Publication City/Country: Barcelona, Spain, Spain
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Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

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 des troyed 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 litera ture and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.