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Roy, Jennifer Rozines.
PLAYING ATARI WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN : BASED ON A TRUE STORY
New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
IL 6-8
ISBN 9780544785076
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At the start of 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil was consumed by his love for soccer, video games, and American television shows. Then, on January 17, Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein went to war with thirty-four nations led by the United States. (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2019-2020)

SUBJECTS:   Hussein, Saddam, -- 1937-2006 -- Fiction.                   
                        Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Fiction.
                        Family life -- Iraq -- Fiction.
                        Iraq -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.





 
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