I am Malala
Across
- 2. Women were banned from laughing out loud or wearing nail polish, and they were beaten or jailed for walking without a male family member.
- 4. ________ is fear all around you.
- 5. I’m named for the great young Pashtun heroine Malala, who ________ her countrymen with her courage.
- 7. My youngest brother, Atal, was in an especially ______ mood that morning
- 9. Schools for girls had been burned to the ground, and all women were forced to wear a _____ form of burqa, a head-to-toe veil that had only a tiny fabric grille for their eyes.
- 10. This is our _______ to the world—save our schools, save our Pakistan, save our Swat.
- 12. Sometimes they came to the school and _______ around.
- 14. You have spoken against us, and you will face the ___________.
- 15. Meanwhile, we have all _______, little by little, to this new place.
- 17. Swat was known for its beauty, and tourists came from all over to see its tall mountains, ____ green hills, and crystal-clear rivers.
- 18. my mother now ________that I never walk to school by myself, for fear that I would be seen alone in my school uniform by the Taliban.
Down
- 1. So I decided to start an education __________.
- 3. I think Bella from Twilight is too ______, and I don’t understand why she would choose that boring Edward.
- 6. I vowed then that I would never _______ in battle.
- 8. My mother and the women would gather on our _______ at the back of the house and cook and laugh and talk about new clothes, jewelry, and other ladies in the neighborhood
- 9. Anti-Taliban _______ were scribbled all over the walls.
- 11. We planned an _________ where we would make our speeches; we called it a peace rally, but it was just going to be a handful of us upper-school girls.
- 13. In our culture, girls do not ____ the males in their families.
- 14. I was in a high bed, and all around me, __________ machines beeped and purred.
- 16. No one was safe in Pakistan. Not the women who were forbidden to walk the streets of their own towns. Not the men who were being flogged to death for _____ reasons.