TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winter,Jeanette
TI  - The librarian of Basra: a true story from Iraq 
SN  - 0152054456
AV  - Z720.B24 W56 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Orlando, Fla.
PB  - Harcourt, Inc.
KW  - Baker, Alia Muhammad
KW  - Librarians
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Baṣrah
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/har051/2004012969.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/har051/2004012969.html
ER  -