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I Am Malala

the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Jul 03, 2016DorisWaggoner rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Malala's story is important. This book tells it from her own point of view, full of interest to those outside her beloved Swat Valley. For me, the problem is that, brilliant as Malala is, she doesn't have enough perspective on the events she's reporting on. Ten years from now, she will be able to write a much better book. For this reason, and because her story is important to the world now, a journalist with considerable knowledge of the area worked with her to help write the story. So sometimes the story reads like that of an adult, and sometimes like that of the child Malala. The book's tone is inconsistent. I hope that years from now, Malala will write her story again, entirely on her own. This is not a bad book. It's just not the book it will be when she's got more perspective on the important events that happened to her and her family.