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Across Social Activists, Asia, People & Places, and Women — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai.

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For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai’s Story — Rebecca Langston-George

For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai’s Story

Rebecca Langston-George

Themes: Social Activists • Asia • People & Places

Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition One Man’s Journey to Change the World… One Child at a Time — Greg Mortenson

Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition One Man’s Journey to Change the World… One Child at a Time

Themes: Social Activists • Asia • People & Places

Malala My Story of Standing Up for Girls’ Rights — Malala Yousafzai

Malala My Story of Standing Up for Girls’ Rights

Malala Yousafzai

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

March Forward, Girl — Melba Pattillo Beals

March Forward, Girl

Melba Pattillo Beals

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

This Is Your Time — Ruby Bridges

This Is Your Time

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Coretta Scott King Dare to Dream — Angela Shelf Medearis

Coretta Scott King Dare to Dream

Angela Shelf Medearis

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Dolores Huerta A Hero to Migrant Workers — Sarah E. Warren

Dolores Huerta A Hero to Migrant Workers

Sarah E. Warren

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

She Loved Baseball The Effa Manley Story — Audrey Vernick

She Loved Baseball The Effa Manley Story

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

We Move the World — Kari Lavelle

We Move the World

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Helen Keller — Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Dream Big, Little One — Vashti Harrison

Dream Big, Little One

Vashti Harrison

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Girls Rebel! Amazing Tales of Women Who Broke the Mold — Heather E. Schwartz

Girls Rebel! Amazing Tales of Women Who Broke the Mold

Heather E. Schwartz

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote — Traci N. Todd

Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Florence Nightingale The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse — Catherine Reef

Florence Nightingale The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

You Are a Star, Malala Yousafzai — Dean Robbins

You Are a Star, Malala Yousafzai

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Mama in Congress Rashida Tlaib’s Journey to Washington — Rashida Tlaib

Mama in Congress Rashida Tlaib’s Journey to Washington

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Rainbow Revolutionaries Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History — Sarah Prager

Rainbow Revolutionaries Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World — Susan Hood

Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Pauli Murray Shouting for the Rights of All People — Deborah Nelson Linck

Pauli Murray Shouting for the Rights of All People

Deborah Nelson Linck

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice — Phillip Hoose

Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Ana’s Story A Journey of Hope — Jenna Bush Hager

Ana’s Story A Journey of Hope

Jenna Bush Hager

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Who Was Coretta Scott King? — Gail Herman

Who Was Coretta Scott King?

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

A Fire in My Hands Poems — Gary Soto

A Fire in My Hands Poems

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

Phenomenal AOC The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Anika Denise

Phenomenal AOC The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Themes: Social Activists • People & Places • Women

If Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Social Activists, Asia, People & Places and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Rebecca Langston-George, Greg Mortenson, Malala Yousafzai, Melba Pattillo Beals, and others.

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I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban — Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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I Am Malala How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) — Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

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We Are Displaced My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World — Malala Yousafzai

We Are Displaced My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

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My Name Is Malala — Malala Yousafzai

My Name Is Malala

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