I Am Malala Yousafzai

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Sometimes in life, you have to stand up for yourself, no matter how hard it. This summer, I read I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. During the book, she talks about how she stood up to the Taliban and later on won the Nobel Peace Prize. In this essay, I will be telling what I learned from her, my bullying experience and how I overcame it. In the book I Am Malala, I learned that you always have to stand up for yourself because if you don’t, you will never be able to rise again.
Throughout the book, Malala learned how to stand up for herself no matter how hard her life was. Malala’s dad, Ziauddin Yousafzai, ran an all girls school in Swat, Pakistan, which the Taliban did not allow. Even though many schools closed down in fear that the Taliban

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