** Shortlisted for the Little Rebels Children's Book Award! ** As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil that she could use to redraw reality. She would use it for good; to give gifts to her family, to erase the smell from the rubbish dump near her house. (And to sleep an extra hour in the morning.) As she grew older, Malala wished for bigger and bigger things. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil, Malala realized that she could still work hard every day to make her wishes come true. This beautifully illustrated picture...

Malala Yousafzai was thrust onto the global stage at age 15 after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life. Though millions knew her name, she struggled to find her place in the world. Her new memoir is a story of searching for identity, an exploration of coming of age in the spotlight and an intimate portrait of her life today. This rare look at her private life traces Yousafzai's path from high school loner to reckless college student to a young woman at peace with her remarkable past.