ATAR Notes Text Guide: I Am Malala
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2019-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781925945119
I Am Malala Study Guide
Author : Pembroke Notes
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781457540691
Book Description
How to Use This Book This book is to be used along with the bestselling book, I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai for anyone who wants to learn about the courage and determination of one young lady to help people, no matter the cost. For students: The study questions and hyperlinks are in order and follow Malala Yousafzai's narrative. Answer the questions on a second reading through each chapter. You will enjoy the flow of the text more if you read each chapter through one time before you answer the questions. For teachers / For homeschools: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. When not teaching or working on district curriculum in Alaska, Peggy and her husband, Bill, armed with fishing poles, make their home in Pittsburg, Missouri.
The Boy Behind the Curtain
Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1509816968
Book Description
Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word.' – Observer The Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how moments from his childhood and life growing up have shaped his views on class, faith, fundamentalism, the environment, and – most pressingly – how all his experiences have made him a writer. From unexpected links between car crashes and faith, surfing and writing, to the story of his upbringing in the changing Australian landscape, The Boy Behind the Curtain is an impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing collection of memories, and Winton's most personal book to date.
I Am Malala
Author : Malala Yousafzai
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316322415
Book Description
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.
Amal Unbound
Author : Aisha Saeed
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399544690
Book Description
A New York Times Bestseller! Amal has big dreams, until a nightmarish encounter . . . Twelve-year-old Amal's dream of becoming a teacher one day is dashed in an instant when she accidentally insults a member of her Pakistani village's ruling family. As punishment for her behavior, she is forced to leave her heartbroken family behind and go work at their estate. Amal is distraught but has faced setbacks before. So she summons her courage and begins navigating the complex rules of life as a servant, with all its attendant jealousies and pecking-order woes. Most troubling, though, is Amal's increasing awareness of the deadly measures the Khan family will go to in order to stay in control. It's clear that their hold over her village will never loosen as long as everyone is too afraid to challenge them--so if Amal is to have any chance of ensuring her loved ones' safety and winning back her freedom, she must find a way to work with the other servants to make it happen.
Past the Shallows
Author : Favel Parrett
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 184854751X
Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful and hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton. 'If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this' Sunday Times 'I loved Past the Shallows' Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds Everyone loves Harry. Except his father. Joe, Miles and Harry are growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania. The brothers' lives are shaped by their father's moods - like the ocean he fishes, he is wild and unpredictable. He is a bitter man, with a devastating secret. Miles does his best to watch out for Harry, the youngest, but he can't be there all the time. Often alone, Harry finds joy in the small treasures he discovers, in shark eggs and cuttlefish bones. In a kelpie pup, a mug of hot chocolate, and a secret friendship with a mysterious neighbour. But sometimes small treasures, or a brother's love are not enough.
Ransom
Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307378934
Book Description
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.
After Darkness
Author : Christine Piper
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1760113115
Book Description
Winner of The 2014 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.
New Guinea Diaries, 1871-1883
Author : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklaĭ
Publisher : Madang, P.N.G. : Kristen Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Anthropologists
ISBN :
Book Description
Non Aboriginal material.
Station Eleven
Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385353316
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • Set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. • Now an original series on HBO Max. • Over one million copies sold! One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!
