A year ago Wednesday,
was riding the bus home from school when a Taliban gunman climbed aboard
and shot her in the head. She nearly died.
Now, the 16-year-old advocate for girls' education is a
popular favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded Friday.
To mark the anniversary of the
shooting, her memoir, "I am Malala," came out
Tuesday. The phrase
has become a battle cry for the right to an education
around the world.
The memoir follows her odyssey from near-death to global
fame in just a year's time. It also gives a vivid account of her everyday life
in Pakistan's Swat Valley and how she developed a love for education.
Her public fight to get that education and for the right of
girls to get one, too, is what put her at odds with the Pakistani Taliban.
They banned girls from schools in the Swat Valley in 2009.
Malala anonymously blogged for the BBC in opposition to that order, drawing the
Islamist militants' rage.
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