Jeanette Winter

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...

"One country: Pakistan. Two children: Iqbal Masih and Malala Yousafzai. Each was unafraid to speak out. He, against inhumane child slavery in the carpet trade. She, for the right of girls to attend school. Both were shot by those who disagreed with them; he in 1995, she in 2012. Iqbal was killed instantly; Malala miraculously survived and continues to speak out around the world"--Publisher information.

Simple rebus illustrations are used to present the familiar cumulative nursery rhyme about the antics that go on in the house built by an unsuspecting Jack.

"After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night."--Amazon.com.

At the top of the world, a polar bear hunts, swims, courts, raises cubs, and worries as they go off on their own.

A biography of architect Zaha Hadid, who grew up in Baghdad and went on to design buildings all over the world.

Three friends show ho to wrtie a rebus, play a game, write in secret code, put on a play, and perform a magic trick.

Having come to live among the Shakers at the age of six, Caleb spends the rest of his life learning their songs and their ways.