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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) Audiobook
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I Am Malala is the memoir of a remarkable teenage girl who risked her life for the right to go to school.
Raised in a changing Pakistan by an enlightened father from a poor background and a beautiful, illiterate mother from a political family, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. I Am Malala tells her story of bravery and determination in the face of extremism, detailing the daily challenges of growing up in a world transformed by terror.
Written for her peers with acclaimed author Patricia McCormick, this important book is about the value of speaking out against intolerance and hate. It's a message of hope from one girl who dreams of education for every girl in every country.
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"We are reading I Am Malala in class. The kids enjoyed hearing Malala's actual voice. The pacing was fine, and they really got into it. However, the last chapter (with the UN speech) and the epilogue were not on the downloaded recording."
— eendicott (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Vaswani’s Indian accent is far from overpowering, and her diction is crisp and easy on the ear. Her cadence also adds to the realism of the reading…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Ms. Yousafzai has single-handedly turned the issue of the right of girls—and all children—to be educated into headline news. And she is a figure worth hearing.”
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“A riveting memoir…this is a book that should be read not only for its vivid drama but for its urgent message about the untapped power of girls.”
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“A searing and personal portrait of a young woman who dared to make a difference.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year for 2014
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A New York Times bestseller
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Winner of the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children
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A 2015 Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner
I Am Malala Listener Reviews
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Paige Buonocore, 11/24/2022
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Christina Allred, 12/30/2019
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Jacquelyn Cardenas, 1/6/2019
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Emily Burns, 5/8/2016
About Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is an education activist, the youngest-ever Nobel laureate, bestselling author, and award-winning film producer. She was born in Mingora, Pakistan, in 1997 and graduated from Oxford University in 2020. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
About Malala Yousafzai
Neela Vaswani is the award-winning author of You Have Given Me a Country and Where the Long Grass Bends. Her work has received an American Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, and a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award. She teaches at Spalding University’s MFA in writing program and is the founder of the Storylines Project with the New York Public Library. She lives in New York City.