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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night."--Amazon.com.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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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...
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26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Español
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Cuenta la verdadera historia sobre la lucha de un librarian para guardar la colección inestimable de su community de libros cuando llega la guerra a Basora, Iraq.
Tells the true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books when war comes to Basra, Iraq.
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...
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