by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick · Indigo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781780622156
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«Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World» is the young-adult autobiography by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick, in paperback.
Malala Yousafzai recounts her childhood in the Swat Valley and the arrival of the Taliban, who pushed women out of public life and attacked schools. After surviving an assassination attempt, she describes her recovery in England and her fight for every child's right to education.
This edition was published by Indigo in 2014, in English.
Suitable reading for young readers aged 12 and up, and for adults interested in human rights and education.
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".
