3 M1 - My Librarian is a Camel

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Nightjohn

Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars.

He had escaped to freedom, but he cam back - came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, Nightjohn...

iPod

Thank You, Mr. Falker (Unabridged)

Patricia Polacco is now one of America's most loved children's book writers and illustrators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starting school. Trisha could paint and draw beautifully, but when she looked at words on a page, all she could see was jumble. It took a very...

DVD

That Book Woman

Cal is not the reading type, but that Book Woman keeps visiting. This is the moving story of the Pack Horse Librarians, whose bravery and commitment helped rural children find something wonderful in books. Narrated by Walter Harrison. Music by Jack Sundrud and Rusty Young. Includes bonus...

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The Librarian of Basra

"In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was 'Read.'"*
--Alia Muhammad Baker

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...

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Wild About Books

In the witty, rhyming style of Dr. Seuss, this movie tells the story of Molly McGrew, the woman who drove her bookmobile into the zoo. Before she knows it, animals of all kinds are devouring books (some of them literally!). Molly finds books in Chinese for the pandas, joke books for the hyenas,...

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