I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban Kindle Edition
by Malala Yousafzai (Author), Christina Lamb (Author)
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*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head at point-blank range.
Malala Yousafzai’s extraordinary journey has taken her from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations. She has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and is the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world.
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‘Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world’ JK Rowling
‘Moving and illuminating’ Observer
‘Inspirational and powerful’ Grazia
‘Her story is astonishing’ Spectator
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Moving and illuminating (Catherine Bennett OBSERVER)
For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala (Kirsty Brimelow THE TIMES)
Not only powerful, but also very instructive about the recent history of Pakistan and the pressures of everyday life there. One finishes the book full of admiration both for Malala, and for her father, who has clearly inspired her (THE SUNDAY TIMES)
Malala Yousafzai’s story begins with her parents being commiserated with after producing a baby girl. In their part of northern Pakistan, she says, rifle shots ring out in celebration of a baby boy’s arrival. But there is no such fanfare for females: their destiny is to cook and clean, to be neither seen nor heard… So how did Malala, who barely warranted a mention in her family’s genealogy, become destined for the history books as a powerful symbol for girls’ universal right to an education? Her memoir I Am Malala tells us how (Baroness Warsi DAILY TELEGRAPH)
One of the more moving details in I Am Malala is that her mother was due to start learning to read and write on the day Malala was shot – 9 October 2012 (Kamila Shamsie The GUARDIAN)
Her story is astonishing (Owen Bennett-Jones SPECTATOR)
This memoir brings out her best qualities. You can only admire her courage and determination. Her thirst for education and reform appear genuine. She also has an air of innocence, and there is an indestructible confidence. She speaks with such poise that you forget Malala is 16 (Ziauddin Sardar THE TIMES)
Inspirational and powerful (GRAZIA)
The medical team that saved Malala; her own stoicism and resilience; the support of her family, now, again in exile, this time in Birmingham; Malala’s level-headed resolve to continue to champion education and children’s rights – these are all powerful reminders of the best in human nature. Much of the money Malala has been awarded has gone to the Malala fund
A tale of immense courage and conviction which begins as [Malala] is shot for campaigning for the rights of girls to an education (THE INDEPENDENT)
Book Description
The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan’s Swat region who stood up to the Taliban.
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Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head at point-blank range.
Malala Yousafzai’s extraordinary journey has taken her from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations. She has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and is the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world
From the Back Cover
Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren’t allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn’t go to school.
Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on 9 October, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause. She was shot point-blank on her way home from school.
No one expected her to survive.
Now she is an international symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
This is the remarkable story of a girl who knew from a young age that she wanted to change the world-and did. It will open your eyes to another world and will make you believe in hope, truth, miracles, and the determination of one person to inspire change.
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Miss K. Southern⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I learnt so much! Inspirational and heartbreaking…
7th June 2019
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I KNEW that I would find this to be a good if tough read, but never did I imagine that the words would literally reduce me to tears on more than one occasion. Seriously. This is one of those books that I’m instantly putting on my ‘books that everyone should read’ list because if they did, they would really learn a thing or two! For those who don’t know who Malala Yousafzai is, I really recommend looking into her inspiring story about opposing the Taliban regime, fighting for girl’s education and how Pakistan might be war-torn, but it is home and beautiful to her.
I liked how this book was split up. This is the Young Readers edition and I can see how the attack on Malala (and the aftermath in hospital) has probably been translated to be far less gruesome, as well as a simplification of the political climate in Pakistan. But I really thought that Patricia McCormick did a really good job of making the facts easy to understand, and it’s still an emotional read. I learnt A LOT while reading this as I don’t think that the plight of the Middle East is covered well in Western Society and I certainly had no real clue about exactly how the Taliban came about in the first place.
Malala’s story, as I said, is really touching. I liked that she remained focused throughout on her desperate bid to raise awareness on girl’s educational needs and the love for her country’s natural surroundings and sense of community when compared to that of England (being a white British girl even I can relate to the sense of isolation in our big cities) is nice because it really puts into perspective that money, technology and a sense of entitlement is NOT everything. It is love that brings happiness, as soppy as it sounds. What’s more, the horrors imposed by the Taliban could EASILY happen in any other country and I really feel that privileged people (including myself) would do well to remember this while reading. Passionate and inspiring, this is my favourite read of the month for sure!
Phoebe Penny ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you’re going to read anything in 2016, please let it be this.
1st June 2019
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This book was one of a few autobiographical books I read last year, really in a phase of doing so. But this one is one of the top books I’ve EVER read. This shouldn’t even be a hard decision for people to purchase. I learnt more about Pakistan and Afghanistan, more about the Taliban, more about Islam and Muslim religion, more about the life for people in those countries and the history of the people that live or lived there. This book was eye opening and amazing to read.
Malala Yousafzai encompasses stories from her father and from people in history and they all tie into her own. How she stood up for education long before the majority of the world knew who she was, how her father stood up for education before her and how he taught her and helped her and how she helped him. How the war in those countries began and how her life was affected by the worst things you couldn’t even imagine experiencing if you live anywhere like I do, the pretty countryside in the south of England. The most I have to deal with is a bus not showing up on time or money problems. This story is about all of the men, women and children who have suffered at the hands of the Taliban and it teaches us who read it the importance of remembering where we live and what we do not understand along with teaching us that we’re all the same. We are all human beings and all deserve to be treated with the same amounts of respect and love as each other. Read this book if you’re going to read anything this year. Please let it be this.
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