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"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. 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 October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...
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"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Malala Yousafzai creció en el valle de Swat en Pakistán y amaba los libros y la escuela. Pero en 2009, los talibanes llegaron al poder y cerraron todas las escuelas para niñas. Malala, con sólo once años, comenzó a hablar y bloguear sobre el derecho de todos los niños a recibir una educación. Pronto estallaron los combates y la familia de Malala huyó del valle de Swat. Después de que cesaron los combates, regresaron a casa y Malala continuó...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
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