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Prologue: The Day my World Changed
PART ONE

Before the Taliban
1

A Daughter Is Born
2

My Father the Falcon
3

Growing up in a School
4

The Village
5

Why I Don’t Wear Earrings and Pashtuns Don’t Say Thank You
6

Children of the Rubbish Mountain
7

The Mufti Who Tried to Close Our School
8

The Autumn of the Earthquake
PART TWO

The Valley of Death
9

Radio Mullah
10

Toffees, Tennis Balls and the Buddhas of Swat
11

The Clever Class
12

The Bloody Square
13

The Diary of Gul Makai
14

A Funny Kind of Peace
15

Leaving the Valley
PART THREE

Three Girls, Three Bullets
16

The Valley of Sorrows
17

Praying to Be Tall
18

The Woman and the Sea
19

A Private Talibanisation
20

Who is Malala?
PART FOUR

Between Life and Death
21

‘God, I entrust her to you’
22

Journey into the Unknown
PART FIVE

A Second Life
23

‘The Girl Shot in the Head, Birmingham’
24

‘They have snatched her smile’
EPILOGUE

One Child, One Teacher, One Book, One Pen…
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Important Events in Pakistan and Swat
A note on the Malala Fund
Picture Section
Additional Credits and Thanks
Copyright