Meet MALALA Yousafzai, the brave and brilliant activist who survived being shot in the head aged 15 to keep fighting for all girls to receive and education.
Find out:
- How an earthquake literally rocked her world,
- Why everyone forgot her twelfth birthday
- And how she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Get to know MALALA on First Name terms.
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
This is Book 5 in the First Names Series. See all First Names books here.
Lisa Williamson was born and grew up in Nottingham. Following a degree in drama, she worked as an actor for over a decade before writing her debut novel, The Art of Being Normal. Lisa loves writing about characters who are different from her and Mia Campbell-Richardson definitely fits the bill. She's everything Lisa wasn't at 16 - loud, daring and uber confi
More about Lisa WilliamsonMike Smith graduated with distinction from the MA Children's Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. He is a winner of the illustrious Macmillan Prize for Children's Picture Book Illustration. When he was a child, Mike's favourite illustrators were Herge, Charles Schultz and Richard Scarry, all of whom still influence h
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