pakistan

Introduces the life of the young female activist and youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate who has championed the female education rights in her native Pakistan.

Malala spoke out for education and was almost killed for standing up for her beliefs, and she continues to work to ensure that every girl around the world has the chance to go to school.

A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.

"Alia, oppressed by her wealthy, overly conservative parents, and Tanzeela, a teenager trapped in an abusive arranged marriage. From silk saris to bombings; from fundamentalism to American sympathy; from Dior makeup to desperate poverty; from sexual abuse to religious taboos, the world of Ayla, in her late teens, struggling in the real world of modern-day Pakistan, is anything but simple"--Jacket flap.

A brief biography of Malala Yousafzai, whose fought for the right for girls to go to school in her native Pakistan despite the fact that doing so put her life in danger.

Contains two stories of brave, young Pakistanis, Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih, who stood up for their rights to education and freedom.

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.

When fourteen-year-old Shauzia flees from a refugee camp in Pakistan, she becomes a street kid and begs for money with a dog named Jasper by her side.