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2014-2015 Go Big Read: I Am Malala : About the Book & Authors
About the Co-Author, Christina Lamb
Book Trailer (on YouTube - Created by Megan Henderson)
An Interview with Malala Yousafzai
Additional Books by Christina Lamb
House of Stone by Call Number: DT2996 L36 2006ISBN: 9781556527920Publication Date: 2006Different edition available on UW-Madison campus
The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream by Call Number: DT3106 G78 L36 2004ISBN: 9780060735876Publication Date: 2004-12-01
The Sewing Circles of Herat by Call Number: DS352 L36 2002ISBN: 9780060505264Publication Date: 2002-12-01
I am Malala
The 2014-2015 Go Big Read selection is I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai.
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Reviews of I am Malala
- The Power of Malala. (International Social Work - Jan. 2014, 57(1), 75)The article discusses the movement of change following the attack of 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai on October 9, 2013 by the Taliban Islamic fundamentalist organization in Pakistan. The movement has to do with educating girls. Yousafzai becomes an international symbol of courage and hope as she doubles her efforts in pushing awareness for education in countries where access to schools has been denied. She also receives the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award from Harvard University.
- Malala: Everyone's Daughter in the Fight for Girls' Education (NPQ: New Perspectives Quarterly - Jan. 2013, 30(1), 59-60)The article focuses on the Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai who became the model of courage for 32 million out of primary school girls all over the world for advocating education for girls. It states that she was shot by the Taliban after she demands to go to school. According to United Nations special envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown, he and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari talked regarding the plan to send five million out-of-school girls and boys in school in Pakistan.