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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: November 1, 2014

Finish date: November 30, 2014

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

Why we're reading this: Non-Fiction Group Read - November 2014
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Nov 10, 2013 Literary Ames marked it as wishlist

Shelves: non-fiction, lib-cat-mk, memoirs

, so I must read it.
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Mar 12, 2019 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, teaching-education, biography, 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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Sep 21, 2014 rachel rated it really liked it

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If there is one good to come from terrorism on a broad and invasive scale, it is a reminder that the spirit of good prevails over even the cruelest evil. Malala closes this book by saying that she is grateful to God for her life and though she is not the same girl physically, she is the same Malala who wants peace and education for every child and using her voice for that cause matters more than her living, breathing life. Her father Ziauddin, also a likely target for his outspokenness again ...more

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Dec 12, 2017 Sean Harding rated it really liked it

Clearly written by someone who is young, but despite not being as polished as it could be, (a book by her in twenty years time would be interesting to see how she has changed, and what has become of her) it is still an inspirational read and reveals the depth of how this world is so messed up. The fight to be educated as a basic right, and yet so many people scorn their education. The right of a girl to be educated, and the propensity for people to act with violence because they don't agree with ...more

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Jul 08, 2015 Carol rated it it was amazing

Shelves: amazing-females

Malala was born in Pakistan in 1997 and became a household word in 2012, when she was shot at point-blank range by a member of the Taliban on her way home from school for advocating education for girls. She later was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and now lives in England with her family because it's not safe for them to return to Pakistan.

Malala tells of being inspired at a young age to stand up for what was right, encouraged by her schoolteacher father; of the scary realities of life ...more

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May 28, 2015 Tess Mertens-Johnson rated it really liked it

Malala is a girl form Pakistan who0se father felt girls should be educated. He opened a Scholl and during the Taliban take over, he and Malala spoke out for the rights to educate girls and women.
On a bus ride home from school when she was 11, and man came on the bus, asked h=for her by names, shot her and two other girls.
The book starts with the shooting and reverts back to her life up to the shooting and then her recovery. It tell of how precious life is, and how education and learning, somethi ...more

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Dec 02, 2013 Kelly rated it liked it

An interesting portrait of modern Pakistani history and events in this family's life. And Malala is amazing! But the tone of the book is disjointed and I couldn't shake the feeling that Malala's voice was a little muted. ...more

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