
Who Is Malala Yousafzai? |
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > Biography & Autobiography > Social Activists
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Author:
Brown, Dinah
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Illustrator::
Andrew Thomson
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ISBN 10:
0448489376
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ISBN 13:
9780448489377
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Price:
USD $5.99
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Publication Year:
2015
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Publisher Info
Penguin Random House. InquiryBook Description
On October 9, 2012, a gunman boarded a school bus in Pakistan, asked for fifteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai, and shot her in the head. In critical condition, Malala was flown to a military hospital before being transferred for further care in England. Miraculously, she survived. Malala had been targeted by the Taliban for a blog she began in 2009 for the BBC, writing about how hard it was for girls in her area to attend school. Now a global advocate for millions who are denied an education, Malala has become the symbol of hope for her own generation. She is the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and still a kid herself, making her story an important addition to the Who Was...? series.