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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.