Memoirs

I Am Malala By malala Yousafzai

• Setting- Pakistan
• Synopsis- Malala Yousafzai, a 15 year old stood up for girls education in Pakistan because she believed she had a God given right to education and one day when she was on a bus with her friends, a man stopped them, asked for Malala and shot her in the head.
• Number of Pages- 352

A Long way gone by ishmael beah

• Setting- Sierra Leone
• Synopsis- This is a true story of twelve year Ishmael Beah's journy of trying to escape the war going on in Sierra Leone, trying to find his family and not become a boy soldier. In the memoir he describes the different people he travels with and places he goes through and what he experiences as a boy soldier and after he is rescued.
• Number of Pages- 229

The bite of the mango by Mariatu k., susan M.

• Setting- Sierra Leone
• Synopsis- During the civil war in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara's village is attacked, many loved ones are lost, she is violently tortured and the rebels cut both her hands off. But through all of this she survives and goes on to tell her story to many.
• Number of Pages- 182

Burned alive by Souad

• Setting- Palestine
• Synopsis- In a village, a seventeen girl, Souad, is pregnant and not married, as a result of this, she is set on fire by her brother-in law, this kind of burning is called, an "honour killing," she was saved though by a worker who was visiting and taken to a hospital in Switzerland and taken care of along with her baby.
• Number of Pages- 225