Saving the Bagdhad Zoo

Saving the Baghdad Zoo

By Kelly Milner Halls and

Major William Sumner

HarperCollins/Greenwillow

ISBN: 9780061772023

Nonfiction

Ages 10+

"Contrary to televisions and newspaper reports, the zoo had not been torn apart by stray explosive. Animals had not been killed by military fire or missiles. But only thirty-two of the five hundred creatures once on display were still caged. Hundreds were missing, butchered for food or stolen for sale as exotic pets on the Iraqi lack market. Even two giraffes, new r...