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

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

Author: Visit Amazon's Malala Yousafzai Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0316322407 | Format: PDF

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Girls attending Malala’s school in Pakistan.

The Headmistress of Malala’s school.

The seat that Malala sat in.

A beautiful view of the Swat valley, where Malala is from.

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"The touching story will not only inform you of changing conditions in Pakistan, but inspire your rebellious spirit." (Matthew Love, Time Out New York)

"Ms. Yousafzai has single-handedly turned the issue of the right of girls--and all children--to be educated into headline news. And she is a figure worth hearing." (Isabel Berwick, Financial Times)

"Wise beyond her years...." (Annie Gowen, Marie Claire)

"Riveting.... Co-written with Christina Lamb, a veteran British journalist who has an evident passion for Pakistan and can render its complicated history with pristine clarity, this is a book that should be read not only for its vivid drama but for its urgent message about the untapped power of girls.... It is difficult to imagine a chronicle of a war more moving, apart from perhaps the diary of Anne Frank. With the essential difference that we lost that girl, and by some miracle, we still have this one." (Marie Arana, Washington Post)

"Remarkable...a must-read, first-person account of her journey through global terrorism, her brave, encouraging parents, and her own fight for girls' education." (MarieClaire.com)

"The victory of Malala Yousafzai is that she's just getting started." (Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon)

"Briskly written but full of arresting detail.... Striking [and] surprising..." (Jill Lawless, Associated Press)

"Ms. Yousafzai's stature as a symbol of peace and bravery has been established across the world..." (Salman Masood, The New York Times)

"Not only has Malala Yousafzai become an international symbol of inspiration and bravery, but her survival instilled educators with courage-and is slowly helping make Pakistani schools safer." (Nick Schifrin, ABC.com)

"For a teenage girl in a distant corner of the globe to spark life into this movement-against overwhelming odds-is truly extraordinary. The world must not allow Malala's message to die." (Dallas Morning News)

"Her powerful message remains undiluted." (Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly)

"In simple, clear writing, I AM MALALA gives a rare and moving first-person glance into what it's like to be a teenager in a country seized by extremists who stand against the basic freedoms you believe in." (Krystin Arneson, Bustle)

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (October 8, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316322407
ISBN-13: 978-0316322409
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

A year ago, a Taliban armed with a pistol shook the conscience of the entire world when he shot a young girl who defied the Taliban's diktat and campaigned for the rights of girls to proper education in Pakistan. The young girl who was shot point-blank defied death as she did the Taliban.

A year later, far from succumbing to the threat, Malala Yousafzai has become a symbol of hope in a world ravaged by violence and brutality. Narrating about the initial threat in her autobiography, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, co-written by Christina Lamb, who is one of the world's leading foreign correspondents, and published by Little, Brown and Company (October 2013), Malala said that she was not scared but had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when one dies.

Aware that the threat could become a reality, Malala used to consider what she would do if the Taliban shot her. She was even thinking, "May be, I'd take off my shoes and hit him."

And on October 9, 2012, Malala was returning from school when a bearded man stopped the bus and asked, "Who is Malala?" The 20-odd girls tucked inside the white three-bench Toyota truck which was used as a school bus were frightened. No one said anything but "that's when he lifted up a black pistol" and the girls screamed.

The bearded man fired three shots, "the first went through my left eye socket and out under my left shoulder. I slumped forward onto Moniba, blood coming from my left ear, so the other two bullets hit the girls next to me...My friends later told me the gunman's hand was shaking as he fired.

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