LCC
Chi Z720 B24 W56 2005
Collection
Description
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.
Publication
Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, FL, 2005.
Subjects
Notes
Children
Awards
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — Picturebook — 2006)
Middle East Book Award (Honorable Mention — Picture Book — 2005)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Picture Books — 2007)
Flicker Tale Award (Nominee — 2006)
Horace Mann Upstanders Award (Suggested Book — Children's Books)
Skipping Stones Honor Award (2006)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (2005)
CCBC Choices (2006)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Intermediate — 2006)
Notable Children's Book (2006)
Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18 (Selection — 2006)