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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

Start date: January 1, 2021

Finish date: January 31, 2021

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Mar 12, 2019 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: biography, nonfiction, teaching-education, 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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Jan 01, 2016 Rachel N. 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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Jan 24, 2019 Angie Taylor 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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