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Gaijinmama
Mar 12, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: nonfiction, teaching-education, biography, gender-studies, culture-studies, memoir, read-the-name-2019
Wow. Just wow. How often does a girl get to tell her story and have people actually listen!
Malala is both an exceptional young woman and yet could be anyone's daughter. She was a child while the events of this book were going on. It sickens me (and should sicken all of us) that any child, anywhere, should have to endanger her life for speaking her mind and wanting an education.
I respect her and wanted to hug her at the same time.
Malala's work is in the curriculum in public schools over here in J ...more
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Rachel N.
Jan 01, 2016 rated it really liked it
Malala is a girl living with her family in the Swat Valley in Pakistan. Once the Taliban takes control of the region they eventually start ordering females to not attend school. Supported by her family Malala speaks out regarding the right of girls to an education. Eventually the military removes most of the taliban presence from Malala's valley and she's allowed to return to school. As she becomes mroe well known she attracts the talibans attention and eventually they shoot her and two other st ...more
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Angie Taylor
Jan 24, 2019 rated it it was amazing
I absolutely LOVED this book and want everyone to read it, especially each boy and girl who has ever complained about having to go to school and learn. What a vastly privileged and different world some of us are born into compared to Malala and her friends. And yet, she made her life become privileged by standing up for her rights as a child and woman. One of the messages that was so, so clear to me from reading this book, is that God loves his children in all the world, and that he especially l ...more
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Soelo
Mar 08, 2014 marked it as to-read-bio-memoir
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Scott Flicker
Apr 26, 2015 marked it as to-read
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May 24, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Aug 05, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Jan 25, 2017 marked it as playaway
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Feb 06, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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