I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai – review

Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

My favourite book is I Am Malala, it is all about a girl called Malala who goes to school in Pakistan. Her father went against the Taliban, and Malala and her mum ran a school for girls to become intelligent young women which was not tolerated there. The Taliban got revenge by sending 2 men to shoot Malala.

She was shot and she got sent to Britain to have treatment. Now she is in Birmingham and she goes to school there. My favourite quote from the book is: ‘I wasn’t sad, I wasn’t scared, I just thought: it doesn’t matter what I look like, I was alive, I was thankful.’

I like this book because it is a real life story, compared to books I normally read. It may have been a little altered by the press but it is a real story. At the start of the book, Malala was a timid, ordinary girl. By the end of the book she was a lot tougher and braver than she was at the start. It is a great book for me to read because it shows how much someone could change throughout a story.

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