A review by michelleful
Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq by Mark Alan Stamaty

4.0

This is another telling of the story of Alia Muhammad Baqer, the librarian of Basra, who saved tens of thousands of books from going up in flames during the Iraq War by marshalling the community. I liked this a bit better than "The Librarian of Basra", which is aimed at even younger readers and tackles slightly more mature themes, though not so much the ethics of war itself; the fact that it threatens books and lives is sufficient condemnation within these pages.