Saving the Scrolls — Mary Kelly

The library is on fire! Twelve-year-old Basdinya, princess of Egypt and youngest sister of Queen Cleopatra, doesn't understand her sister's devotion to the Library of Alexandria, the greatest library ever assembled. Who cares about dusty old scrolls anyway? Battling her own maturing but still untamed spirit, her sister, an earthquake, Julius Caesar, and the fire set by Caesar that engulfs her now beloved library, Basdinya unexpectedly – but heroically – sets about Saving the Scrolls.