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We Are Displaced
- My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
- Narrated by: Malala Yousafzai - prologue, Neela Vaswani, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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Publisher's Summary
In this powerful book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Malala Yousafzai introduces the people behind the statistics and news stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide.
After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother.
Zaynab was out of school for two years as she fled war before landing in America. Her sister, Sabreen, survived a harrowing journey to Italy.
Ajida escaped horrific violence but then found herself battling the elements to keep her family safe in their new makeshift home.
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 We Are Displaced, 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, We Are Displaced 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.
"A stirring and timely book." (New York Times)
What the critics say
6 Best Books for Teens of 2019, Parents magazine
School Library Journal Best Books of 2019
ALA Notable Books for Children 2019
ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
"Nobel Peace Prize winner Yousafzai, who famously survived being shot by Taliban soldiers as a teen in 2012, is a passionate activist for girls' right to education. Yet, in this profound volume, she sidesteps those aspects of her life to illuminate another experience: displacement - beginning with her family's forced 2009 evacuation of their Pakistani hometown in response to escalating Taliban violence. Comprising the bulk of the book are urgent, articulate first-person stories from displaced or refugee young women whom Yousafzai has encountered in her travels, whose birthplaces include Colombia, Guatemala, Syria and Yemen. ... The contributors' strength, resilience, and hope in the face of trauma is astounding, and their stories' underlying message about the heartbreaking loss of their former lives and homelands (and the resulting "tangle of emotions that comes with leaving behind everything you know") is profoundly moving.—Publishers Weekly
"A stirring and timely book that strips the political baggage from the words 'migrant' and 'refugee,' telling the deeply personal stories of displacement and disruption that were lived by Yousafzai and nine other girls. ... [In] all these accounts, hope emerges as a kind of belligerent reaction to pain and loss."—The New York Times Book Review
"While geared to mature middle and high school level listeners, this is an audiobook that could be listened to and discussed in a guided family or school setting. Anyone who wants to learn more about immigration and refugees will benefit from this telling."—School Library Journal, review of audiobook edition
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- Elizabeth W.
- 2019-10-11
Highly recommended reading....
I highly recommend everyone, especially those who are opposed to having refugees enter our country, listen to this audiobook. If more people, who do not understand what the displaced people from war-torn countries are fleeing, this world could be a lot more peaceful place to live. The work up is a little slow with Malala telling her personal story first, but then the speakers change and the stories of other girls are told which then brings to light the terror and horror the refugees go through as they too must flee their homes and property or face certain death. If we could just all agree to offer a safe haven for these dear people at least while the wars and political upheaval is dealt with or rectified in their country. I believe that the only way to cure the mass poverty in third-world countries IS to educate the girls. From them will come the future of the entire village and from the village will come the prosperity of the country.
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