by Malala Yousafzai · ISBN 9789174752229
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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, an incredibly brave girl refused to be silenced. Malala Yousafzai fought for all girls' right to education, which on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, almost cost her her life. Malala was on her way home when the school bus was stopped by armed Taliban. She was shot in the head at close range and few believed she would survive. At sixteen, Malala has become a global symbol of peaceful protests and the fight for women's rights, and the youngest ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. I am Malala is the true story of a family forced from their home by terrorists, about the struggle for girls' right to education.
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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".
