Librarian of Basra, The

A True Story from Iraq

The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter.

 

 

Excerpt:

***Warning: War, Bombs, Fire

Alia Muhammad Baker’s library in Basra, Iraq, has been a meeting place for book lovers for the past fourteen years. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library and the thirty thousand books within it will be destroyed forever.