Alia Muhammad Baker

Through narrative nonfiction text, readers learn the amazing story of Alia Muhammad Baker, a librarian who preserved Iraq's history by saving thousands of books from being destroyed during the Iraq War. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions, callouts, and sidebars, a glossary, sources for further research, a listing of source notes, and an introduction to the author. Each narrative-nonfiction book in the True Stories Real People series tells an amazing true story of a real person who has faced the unthinkable and survived. Through clear text, full-color photographs, primary-source quotes, and important details about the dramatic events that unfolded, young readers will be transported to the center of the excitement in these amazing stories of survival, hope, and heroism. Each book concludes with an inside look at how the event affected the person and the society around them.