I Am Malala

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai is the memoir of the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history. Growing up in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, Malala was an outspoken advocate for girls’ education in a region increasingly controlled by the Taliban, who had banned girls from attending school. In October 2012, when she was fifteen years old, a gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head. Against all odds she survived and resumed her campaign from Birmingham, England. Written with journalist Christina Lamb, Malala’s story traces her childhood in Swat, her father’s educational mission, the rise of Taliban terror, and her courageous refusal to be silenced. An inspiring and urgent account of one girl’s fight for rights that much of the world takes for granted.