Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words - Hardcover

Leggett Abouraya, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1620148382 ISBN 13: 9781620148389

Publisher: Lee & Low Books, 2019

Synopsis

Growing up in the Swat Valley of Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai loved books and school. But in 2009, the Taliban came to power and closed all schools for girls. Malala, just eleven years old, began to speak and blog about the right of all children to receive an education.

Soon fighting broke out and Malala's family fled the Swat Valley. After the fighting ceased, they returned home, and Malala continued to speak out. That's when she was shot by a Taliban gunman, but her life-threatening injury only strengthened Malala's resolve. In 2013, just nine months after being attacked, Malala addressed the United Nations about the right of every child to receive an education, and in 2014, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At age seventeen, she was the youngest person ever to receive this honor.

This book is more than a biography of a brave, outspoken girl who continues to fight for the millions of children worldwide who are not able to go to school. It is also a testament to the power of education to change the world for girls and boys everywhere.

About this title

About the Author:

SUSAN L. ROTH's unique mixed-media collage illustrations have appeared in numerous award-winning children's books, many of which she also wrote. Her bookParrots Over Puerto Ricowon the Robert F. Sibert Medal for Nonfiction from the American Library Association. Roth lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1620148382
• ISBN 13: 9781620148389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Roth Susan L