I am Malala

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.

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.