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Eighteen-year-old Muslim Halima, having moved to London to start college, is forced to make a choice between her family and faith and her newfound freedom after she learns that her father has arranged for her to marry a distant relative as repayment of a debt.

Looks at the life of Malala Yousafzai, a Muslim teenage girl from Pakistan, who advocates for education of women and children, and whom the Taliban attempted to assassinate on October 9, 2012.

"Sonita has been a refugee for her entire life. Born in a refugee camp in Pakistan, Sonita had never seen her familys homeland of Afghanistan until, faced with discrimination in Pakistan and possible deportation, her parents decided to return. But despite the end of the war, Afghanistan is not the home Sonitas parents and sister remember. Sonita must adjust to life in a homeland she has never known, and work hard to survive and thrive in a country still full of conflict and insecurity. Interwoven with facts about the conflict in Afghanistan, Sonitas story gives a look at the experiences of Afghan refugees forced to return to a home that no longer exists"--Amazon.

A picture book biography of squash player Maria Toorpakai Wazir of Pakistan who pretended to be a boy as a young girl and defied the Taliban in order to play her sport.

Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Malala Yousafzai. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.

A book for high school students about the reality of daily life under control of the Taliban.

A short biography of Malala Yousafzai.

Photographs by the White House photographer help to tell the story of how the U.S. defeated Osama bin Laden.

When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.