Malala Yousafzai Books in Order

Growing up in Pakistan, Malala wishes for a magic pencil that could improve the world around her. As she recognizes problems beyond her own everyday wishes, this picture book traces her discovery that determination and action can create change.

Malala reflects on her own displacement alongside the experiences of girls forced from their homes by violence and upheaval. Their accounts follow dangerous journeys, disrupted education, family separation, and efforts to rebuild lives in unfamiliar places.

Malala introduces herself to very young readers through the ordinary roles and relationships that accompany her public activism. Simple language and illustrations present her as a daughter, sister, friend, and student as well as an advocate for education.

Malala describes the years behind her public image as she attends Oxford, forms friendships, falls in love, and struggles with anxiety. This memoir follows her efforts to build an adult identity beyond the attack and activism that made her famous.

In this adaptation for younger readers, Malala Yousafzai recounts her childhood in Pakistan and her campaign for girls' education. Written with Patricia McCormick, it follows her resistance to Taliban restrictions, the attack she survived, and continued advocacy.