num_pages: 327
description: I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.On Tuesday October 9 2012 when she was fifteen she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school and few expected her to survive. Instead Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism of the fight for girls' education of a father who himself a school owner championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.
language: English
title: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
publisher: Little, Brown and Company