We Are Displaced

My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

By: Malala Yousafzai

Narrated by: Malala Yousafzai - prologue, Neela Vaswani, Deepti Gupta

Length: 4 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

In this powerful book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Malala Yousafzai introduces the people behind the statistics and news stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide.

After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother.

Zaynab was out of school for two years as she fled war before landing in America. Her sister, Sabreen, survived a harrowing journey to Italy.

Ajida escaped horrific violence but then found herself battling the elements to keep her family safe in their new makeshift home.

Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement - first as an internally displaced person when she was a young child in Pakistan and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are Displaced, Malala not only explores her own story, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her journeys - girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they've ever known.

In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the world's most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person - often a young person - with hopes and dreams.

"A stirring and timely book." (New York Times)

©2019 Malala Yousafzai (P)2019 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

6 Best Books for Teens of 2019, Parents magazine
School Library Journal Best Books of 2019
ALA Notable Books for Children 2019
ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019

"Nobel Peace Prize winner Yousafzai, who famously survived being shot by Taliban soldiers as a teen in 2012, is a passionate activist for girls' right to education. Yet, in this profound volume, she sidesteps those aspects of her life to illuminate another experience: displacement - beginning with her family's forced 2009 evacuation of their Pakistani hometown in response to escalating Taliban violence. Comprising the bulk of the book are urgent, articulate first-person stories from displaced or refugee young women whom Yousafzai has encountered in her travels, whose birthplaces include Colombia, Guatemala, Syria and Yemen. ... The contributors' strength, resilience, and hope in the face of trauma is astounding, and their stories' underlying message about the heartbreaking loss of their former lives and homelands (and the resulting "tangle of emotions that comes with leaving behind everything you know") is profoundly moving.—Publishers Weekly

"A stirring and timely book that strips the political baggage from the words 'migrant' and 'refugee,' telling the deeply personal stories of displacement and disruption that were lived by Yousafzai and nine other girls. ... [In] all these accounts, hope emerges as a kind of belligerent reaction to pain and loss."—The New York Times Book Review

"While geared to mature middle and high school level listeners, this is an audiobook that could be listened to and discussed in a guided family or school setting. Anyone who wants to learn more about immigration and refugees will benefit from this telling."—School Library Journal, review of audiobook edition

Spellbinding stories

Once I started listening I finished the book in one sitting. Spellbinding, heartbreaking and joyful. Malala has done it again

Bravo Malala

Refugee Stories that must heard. Heart breaking. Brought tears to my eyes as I listened intently to accounts of painful experiences.

Everyone should hear this

It’s one thing to see a news story about a refugee, but hearing a displaced person tell their own story in their own words is truly eye-opening. It’s a world that we in Western society just have a really hard time grasping. This book has really given me a deeper understanding of the refugee experience.

Eye-opening and important stories

Truly impactful book that highlights the authors' unique adversities in each of the selected stories as well as several common themes between them. I chose this book hoping for an introductory understanding of refugee experiences, and that is exactly what I gained from it. Each story left me more moved, inspired, grateful and motivated to contribute to this cause than before. I will be thinking of these brave girls and carrying them and their stories in my heart for a long time.

Thank you for sharing your stories

Wow! Very powerful stories bundled in one book! Will never look at refugees the same way again. Thank you for enlightening me.

Heartbreaking

Parts of this book are a little redundant if you have read her first book but it’s Incredible to hear the girls tell their stories!

Hauntingly Beautiful

Took me to places I’ve never been. Felt feelings I have been blessed to never need to feel. A must read that will provoke a must to action.
Audio was beautifully done.

Remarkable Women

I loved this book. The human spirit is amazingly resilient. The stories shared are heartbreaking and a wake up call to look outside of ourselves and to always recognize our blessings.

Very interesting!

I loved that the book was read by the actual young ladies. very moving and thought provoking

Omg this book is amazing

This book is great for teens and preteens. Malala is very inspiring and a great person with a huge heart. This book is my favorite.😁