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

I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World is the story of Malala Yousafzai, an autobiography written with Patricia McCormick. You probably saw this story in the news when on 10/9/12, this 15-year-old girl was shot in the head by the Taliban in her home town in Pakistan. Then, she survived, recovered, and became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner. She wrote this book a year after the shooting.

Recommended to me by my daughter, this is definitely a book worth reading. Not only is it a story of courage of a teenager girl standing up for the right to education in the face of the Taliban’s siege of the culture of Afghanistan, but it also gives a clue to what life is like in this country and the challenges that lie ahead for the country. This was a short and quick read. The writing is a bit simplistic, perhaps what she should expect from a teenager who is not a native English speaker. Nonetheless, the story is compelling and the idealism is infective.