Sometimes it seems like education is either taken for granted or being denied by someone. What made me interested in wanting to read this is that Malala was fighting for a cause that could be beneficial to so many.
Book: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
Source: Library
Description:
I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.
Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.
I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world
I'm a huge Oz fan and I had to pick up the issues for this miniseries, I just didn't get around to reading them until now.
Book: Oz: The Emerald City of Oz (issues #1-5, Marvel's Oz comic series volume #6) by L. Frank Baum adapted by Eric Shanower and illustrations by Skottie Young
Edition: Reading the single print issues
Description:
The Eisner Award-winning creative team of Eric Shanower and Skottie Young bring you the best Oz series yet!
Uncle Henry can't pay the mortgage, so he, Aunt Em and Dorothy must leave their Kansas home. Where can they go? To the Land of Oz, of course! Dorothy and the Wizard take Em and Henry on a grand tour, discovering knowledge pills and living paper dolls, solving living puzzles, suffering abuse from living kitchen utensils and drooling over living baked goods - but will anyone in Oz be left living after the Nomes attack, allied with the highly disagreeable Growleywogs? And when General Guph persuades the most evil race alive - the shape-shifting Phanfasms of Mt. Phantastico-to join the Nome Army, have the Nomes bitt en off more than they can chew?
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