The Resource The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq, written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter
The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq, written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter
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The item The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq, written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Athens Regional Library System.This item is available to borrow from 10 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq, written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Athens Regional Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 10 library branches.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 volume (unpaged)
- Isbn
- 9780152054458
- Label
- The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq
- Title
- The librarian of Basra
- Title remainder
- a true story from Iraq
- Statement of responsibility
- written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter
- Subject
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- Librarians -- Iraq | Baṣrah -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Iraq War, 2003
- trueWomen librarians -- Iraq
- trueLibraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Basrah, Iraq
- Biography
- truePicture books for children
- trueIraq -- History -- 21st century
- Baker, Alia Muhammad
- Baker, Alia Muhammad -- Juvenile literature
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- trueBooks and publishing -- Libraries and librarianship
- trueBooks
- Librarians
- trueBaker, Alia Muhammad
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage
- Iraq -- Baṣrah
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Iraq | Baṣrah
- trueLibrarians -- Basrah, Iraq -- Biography
- trueBasrah, Iraq
- trueBiographies
- trueBiographies -- Scholars and educators
- trueResponsibility
- trueIraq War, 2003-2011
- Baker, Alia Muhammad
- trueHistory books -- Wars -- Iraq War
- Juvenile works
- trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Juvenile literature
- Librarians -- Iraq | Baṣrah -- Biography
- trueWar
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Iraq | Baṣrah -- Juvenile literature
- trueBiographies -- Identity | Middle Easterners
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Summary
- Presents the true story of how Alia Baker, the librarian of the Basra library, and her friends managed to save the books of the library before the library was burned to the ground during the 2003 Iraq War
- Award
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- Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, 2005.
- ALA Notable Children's Book, 2006
- Amelia Bloomer List, 2006
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 136825
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 020/.92
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
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- Elementary Grade
- 640
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- Z720.B24
- LC item number
- W56 2005
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 640
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- -1
- 12
- Reading level
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- 3.2.
- 3.4.
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Study program name
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- Accelerated Reader
- Reading Counts!
- Target audience
- juvenile
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a true story from Iraq
- Label
- The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq, written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2435892
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
- Extent
- 1 volume (unpaged)
- Isbn
- 9780152054458
- Lccn
- 2004012969
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocm55658292
- (OCoLC)55658292
- Label
- The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq, written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2435892
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
- Extent
- 1 volume (unpaged)
- Isbn
- 9780152054458
- Lccn
- 2004012969
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocm55658292
- (OCoLC)55658292
Subject
- trueBaker, Alia Muhammad
- Baker, Alia Muhammad
- Baker, Alia Muhammad
- Baker, Alia Muhammad -- Juvenile literature
- trueBasrah, Iraq
- trueBiographies
- trueBiographies -- Identity | Middle Easterners
- trueBiographies -- Scholars and educators
- Biography
- trueBooks
- trueBooks and publishing -- Libraries and librarianship
- trueHistory books -- Wars -- Iraq War
- Iraq -- Baṣrah
- trueIraq -- History -- 21st century
- Iraq War, 2003
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- trueIraq War, 2003-2011
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Juvenile literature
- Juvenile works
- Librarians
- trueLibrarians -- Basrah, Iraq -- Biography
- Librarians -- Iraq | Baṣrah -- Biography
- Librarians -- Iraq | Baṣrah -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage
- trueLibraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Basrah, Iraq
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Iraq | Baṣrah
- Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Iraq | Baṣrah -- Juvenile literature
- trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
- truePicture books for children
- trueResponsibility
- trueWar
- trueWomen librarians -- Iraq
Genre
- trueBiographies
- trueBiography
- trueBooks and publishing
- trueHistory books
- Juvenile literature
- Juvenile works
- trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
- truePicture books for children
Included in
- trueALA Notable Children's Books - Middle Readers Category: 2006
- trueAmelia Bloomer Lists - Beginning Readers Nonfiction: 2006
- trueCharacter Education: Responsibility : Fiction and Nonfiction for Grades 3-5
- trueFlora Stieglitz Straus Award
- truePicture Book Biographies for Grade 4
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
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