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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

by Malala Yousafzai
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Pages
112
Word Count
90914
Lexile
1000L
AR
7.1
Grade Level
G7 - G8
Genre
Autobiography

Summary

The bestselling memoir by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. I am Malala. This is my story. 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 October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank while riding the bus on her way home from school. No one expected her to survive.

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