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Format:
Book
Title:
The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq
ISBN:
9780152054458

9781415575277

9780358141839
Publication:
New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2005]
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Number in series:
153.
Summary:
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, the library where she works 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.
Reading Level:
Elementary Grade.

640 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 3.2.

Reading Counts! 3.4.
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