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Oppenheim, Joanne. (2006) Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference. Scholastic Nonfiction. $22.99. (0-439-56992-3). A public librarian Miss Breed made sure that the Japanese-American children who were interred in concentration camps were sent books during their incarceration during World War II. (non-fiction) Books to children (online) <http://www.mcelmeel.com/curriculum/librarians.html> |
And be sure to check out the reading/literacy initiative taking place right now in Ethiopia -- check out Ethiopia Reads and their Donkey Cart library -- and their many other initiatives to bring books to the children of Ethiopia. Check how you can be part of the efforts to build a nation of readers.
- Appelt, Kathi. Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky. HarperCollins, 2001.
- Peck, Richard. Here Lies the Librarian. Dial, 2006.
- Polacco, Patricia. Aunt Chip and the Triple Creek Dam Affair. Philomel, 1996.
- Ruurs, Margriet. My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World. Boyds Mills Press, 2005.
- Stamaty, Mark Alan. Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq. Knopf, 2004.
- Stotts, Stuart. Books in Boxes: Lutie Stearns and the Traveling Libraries of Wisconsin. Big Valley Press, 2005
- Winter, Jeanette. The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq. Harcourt, 2005.
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