I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb - October 2013

New York: Little, Brown and Company, October 2013. Hardcover. First Edition, 10th printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Slight edgewear. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. viii + 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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. In 2012, when she was fifteen, Malala was shot in the head while riding the bus home from school. 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. Within a year she had become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. This is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who 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. This story will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.

Contents: The Day My World Changed -- Before the Taliban. A daughter is born ; My father the falcon ; Growing up in a school ; The village ; Why I don't wear earrings and Pashtuns don't say thank you ; Children of the rubbish mountain ; The mufti who tried to close our school ; The autumn of the earthquake -- The Valley of Death. Radio Mullah ; Toffees, tennis balls, and the Buddhas of Swat ; The clever class ; The bloody square ; The diary of Gul Makai ; A funny kind of peace ; Leaving the valley -- Three Girls, Three Bullets. The Valley of Sorrows ; Praying to be tall ; The woman and the sea ; A private Talibanization ; Who is Malala? -- Between Life and Death. "God, I entrust her to You" ; Journey into the unknown -- A second life. "The girl shot in the head, Birmingham" ; "They have snatched her smile" -- One child, one teacher, one book, one pen-- -- Important events in Pakistan and Swat.