In honor of Women's History Month, our book for is March is:
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
Written & Illustrated by Jeanette Winter
Alia Muhammad Baker's library in Basra, Iraq, has been a meeting place for those who love books for the past fourteen years. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library—along with the thirty thousand books within it—will be destroyed forever.