Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, The Child's World Call No: 020 .092 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: True stories, real peopleSummary Note: "[Relates the] story of Alia Muhammad Baker, a librarian who preserved Iraq's history by saving thousands of books from being destroyed during the Iraq War."--Provided by publisher.
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2006., Adolescent, Scholastic Call No: 940.53 OPP Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the early 1940s, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American children and teens when war broke out in December of 1941. The story of what happened to these American citizens is told through letters that her young friends wrote to Miss Breed during their internment. This librarian and humanitarian served as a lifeline to these imprisoned young people, and was brave enough to speak out against a shameful chapter in American history.
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c2005., Harcourt Call No: BIO E BAK Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of a librarian's struggle to save her war-stricken community's priceless collection of books.
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c2004., Juvenile, Harcourt, Inc. Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Story of how the librarian saved the books in a town with war.
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c2005., Juvenile, Harcourt Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view Summary Note: During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.
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c2005., Juvenile, Harcourt Call No: 020 WINTER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.
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c2005., Juvenile, Harcourt Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Series Title: Cat ResiliencySummary Note: During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.
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c2005., Juvenile, Harcourt, Inc. Call No: Picture Book WIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 us all how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.
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2018., Juvenile, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Librarian Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852û1932) worked at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland—-only the second county library in the country. Concerned that not enough people had access to books due to the largely rural community, Titcomb began the first mobile library, which at her time was a horse-drawn book wagon. And by 1922, mobile libraries had popped up all over the nation.
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2009., Juvenile, Abdo Pub. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the life and achievements of Melvil Dewey, developer of a classification system for libraries in 1879 that is still used by thousands of libraries in the early twenty-first century.
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2003., Pre-adolescent, Mitchell Lane Publishers Call No: 921 PRINTZ Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Great achievement awardsSummary Note: Profiles high school librarian Michael L. Printz, whose efforts in championing authors and their books led to the creation of the Michael L. Printz Award to honor excellence in Young Adult literature.
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2013., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 020.92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the late 1800s, many librarians did not allow children to touch books or bring them home, since "they would surely forget to bring them back." Anne Carroll Moore disagreed, and essentially invented the children's library.
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2013., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 020.92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the late 1800s, many librarians did not allow children to touch books or bring them home, since "they would surely forget to bring them back." Anne Carroll Moore disagreed, and essentially invented the children's library.
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[2019], Juvenile, Harper Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents a short picture book biography of Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City, following her story as she came to America in 1921 and found work as a bilingual assistant at the New York Public Library, and then began to tell stories of her own.
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[2017]., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: B Sch Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Arturo Schomburg, an Afro-Puerto Rican of the Harlem Renaissance, collected books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora to bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages.
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[2017]., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Arturo Schomburg, an Afro-Puerto Rican of the Harlem Renaissance, collected books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora to bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages.
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2014., Gotham Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When he was playing a tree in his elementary school play, Josh Hanagarne first found out he had Tourette Syndrome, as he began twitching uncontrollably. Here Josh offers in his own words the story of his life--how at first Tourettes ruined it and everything good in it, including his relationships and his Mormon faith--to how he overcame Tourettes with weight lifting, strong man competitions, and being a librarian.
