Alia's Mission
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The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war.
It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction of the war, Alia undertakes a courageous and extremely dangerous task of spiriting away 30,000 books from the library to a safe place.
Told in dramatic graphic-novel panels by acclaimed cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty, Alia's Mission celebrates the importance of books and the freedom to read, while examining the impact of war on a country and its people.
Alia's Mission
By Mark Alan Stamaty
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It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction of the war, Alia undertakes a courageous and extremely dangerous task of spiriting away 30,000 books from the library to a safe place.
Told in dramatic graphic-novel panels by acclaimed cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty, Alia's Mission celebrates the importance of books and the freedom to read, while examining the impact of war on a country and its people.
ISBN
9780375832178
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Pages
32 pages
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Published
Jan 1, 2004
Language
en
Cover type
Hardcover
Book details
- Authors
- Mark Alan Stamaty
- ISBN
- 9780375832178
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Published
- Jan 1, 2004
- Publication year
- 2004
- Pages
- 32
- Dimensions
- 9.33 in × 0.36 in × 7.46 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Juvenile NonfictionHistoryMilitary & WarsPeople & PlacesMiddle East