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Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan / Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan
Iqbal Masih was a four-year-old boy in Pakistan in the 1980s when he went to work in a carpet factory, held in bondage because of a twelve-dollar loan his parents couldn’t repay. When he got older and realized he was being forced to work illegally, he began fighting, gaining his freedom and then speaking out on behalf of other children until he was shot and killed, at age twelve. Malala Yousafzai was a fifteen-year-old girl in Pakistan in 2012 when she was shot by the Taliban for advocating for education for girls. She survived, and has become even more outspoken. Jeanette Winter’s spare and moving account of these two inspiring young people a generation apart tells each story separately, starting from either end of the book (which must be flipped over and around halfway through). But the two meet in the middle with a wordless page spread showing both of them. Malala is holding onto the string of a kite, and Iqbal looks to have just let go of one. ©2014 Cooperative Children's Book Center
Illustrated by Jeanette Winter
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 7-10
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Formats:
Biography, Autobiography and Memoir
Picture book
Subjects:
20th Century
21st Century
Activism and Resistance
Biography
Child Labor
Education
Girls and Women
History (Nonfiction)
Muslim People
Pakistanis and Pakistani Americans
World History
Diversity subject:
Asian
Muslim
Publisher:
Beach Lane
Publish Year: 2014
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9781481422949
CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 331 Winter