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We are displaced : my journey and stories from refugee girls around the world / Malala Yousafzai with Liz Welch.

Yousafzai, Malala, 1997- (author.). Welch, Liz, 1969- (Added Author).

Summary:

"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement--first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In [this book], which is part memoir, part communal storytelling, Malala not only explores her own story, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her journeys-- girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they've ever known. In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, [this book] is an important reminder from one of the world's most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person--often a young person--with hopes and dreams."--Dust jacket flap.

Record details

ISBN: 9780316523646
ISBN: 031652364X
Physical Description: xi, 212 pages, [8] pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1: I am displaced. Life as we knew it -- How could this be happening? -- Internally displaced -- Shangla -- Returning home -- Caught between two worlds -- Part 2: We are displaced. Zaynab: Why me and not her? -- Sabreen: No turning back -- Zaynab: Dream big -- Muzoon: I saw hope -- Najla: Thousands of people, just like us -- María: Nobody can take away what we carry inside -- Analisa: Lucky -- Marie Claire: A new beginning -- Jennifer: I needed to do something -- Ajida: At nighttime, we walked -- Farah: This was my story.