Malala Yousafzai: Annotated Bibliography

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I had to do an annotated bibliography about Malala Yousafzai. Malala was born July 12, 1997 at Mingora, Pakistan. She currently is a Human Rights Activist, an Educational Rights Advocate. Malala was just on the school on her way to school when all of a sudden the Taliban stop the school bus in search for Malala. When the afraid students pointed out where she was they started shooting the students and shot Malala on her neck and head. She was quickly rushed to a hospital where they did surgeries to remove the bullets from her body. Luckily Malala survived and when she fully recovered all she wanted was to go back to school and get an education. Ever since then Malala was admired for surviving the shooting and being a brave young lady. After

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