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Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein

by Jennifer Roy

Ages: 9+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

ISBN: 978-0-544-78507-6

Keywords: Iraq War, Diversity, War, Family

When the Gulf War between Iraq and the U.S. begins in 1991, Ali, 11, and his Christian Kurdish family struggle to survive the nightly bombings in Basra.