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I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World


By Malala Yousafzai & Patricia McCormick

Reading Level: High School, Middle School
Genre: Non Fiction
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2013
Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on 9 October, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause. She was shot point-blank on her way home from school. No one expected her to survive. Now, she is an international symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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