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
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biography
Content: Activism
Settings: Asia, Iraq, Western Asia
Ethnicity: Iraqi
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Middle Eastern/North African/Arab
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary