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    <title>Hands around the library</title>
    <subTitle>protecting Egypt's treasured books</subTitle>
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    <publisher>Scholastic</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>34 unnumbered pages :  color illustrations ;  23 x 27 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Documents the inspiring January 2011 story about how thousands of Egypt's students, library workers, and demonstrators joined hands around the great Library of Alexandria to protect the building and the freedom it represents.</abstract>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Susan L. Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya ; collages by Susan L. Roth.</note>
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      <namePart>Aliksāndrīnā (Library)</namePart>
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    <topic>Destruction and pillage</topic>
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