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Genre Group Read (Humour) - December 2016 - You Are Not So Smart
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last updated Dec 28, 2016 04:05PM
Alternate Group Read (Classics) - December 2016 - Mansfield Park
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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
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
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
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
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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Very inspirational story. Such an incredible girl
