Malala Yousafzai stood up to the Taliban and was nearly killed for her courage and activism. The attempt against her life did not silence her. In fact, it only served to ground her more solidly in her cause – championing the right to quality education for all children around the world. Her story demonstrates that all of us have the strength to stand up, raise our voices, and win, even against the most violent of oppressors.

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Learn More about Malala Yousafzai:

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is Malala’s autobiography, released in October 2013. It became an international bestseller. The book was abridged in 2018 for young chapter book readers as Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights.

HE NAMED ME MALALA, is a documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman), giving viewers an intimate look into the life of Yousafzai, her family, and her commitment to supporting education for girls around the world.

Malala's Magic Pencil is a children’s book, published in 2017, that introduces her childhood in Pakistan through a well-known TV show where a young boy uses his magic pencil to help people. In the book, the magic pencil instructs readers how to make the world a better place.

Published in 2018, We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World explores Yousafzai's story as well as the stories of girls she met in her travels to refugee camps in Colombia, Guatemala, Syria and Yemen.

SOURCES:

https://malala.org/malalas-story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai

https://www.biography.com/activist/malala-yousafzai

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/biographical/

https://theirworld.org/explainers/malala-yousafzais-speech-at-the-youth-takeover-of-the-united-nations

https://news.un.org/en/story/2017/10/567872-interview-fighting-girls-education-un-advocate-malala-yousafzai-finds-her

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29177946