title: Malala: A Hero for All (Step into Reading)
author: Shana Corey
description: SHANA COREY is a childrens book editor and author. She writes stories about brave women and girls in history, including <i>Here Come the Girl Scouts!</i>, called exuberant in a starred review from <i>School Library Journal</i>, and <i>Mermaid Queen</i>, <i>Players in Pigtails</i>, and <i>You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!</i> The <i>New York Times</i> recently called Corey a deft storyteller.<br /> <br /> ELIZABETH SAYLES has illustrated more than twenty-five books for children, including the Step into Reading biography <i>Anne Franks Chestnut Tree</i> and the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling picture book <i>I Already Know I Love You</i> by Billy Crystal. <i>The Goldfish Yawned</i>, which she wrote and illustrated, was a Bank Street College Best Childrens Book. She is a professor of illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York and of illustration and cartooning at the State University of New York at Rockland. She works from her home in the lower Hudson Valley, which she shares with her husband and their daughter.
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  ## C. L. Wilson
  
  
  ## Queen of Song and Souls
  
  
  Tairen Soul
  
  
  ![image](Images/logo.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Alicia Condon. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for everything: the
  late-night phone calls, the brainstorming, the long, tireless hours you spent
  helping me make this book the best it could be. Most of all, thank you just
  for being there. I couldn’t have done it without you. Ve sha beilissa te eiri.
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Map](005-mappage.html#mappage)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](006-prologuepage.html#prologuepage)
  
  
  She was only nine years old, and she was going…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](007-chapter01.html#chapter01)
  
  
  Ellysetta Baristani plunged her hands into the gaping cavity of…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Two](008-chapter02.html#chapter02)
  
  
  «When I find my wings, Rain, I doubt you’ll ever…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Three](009-chapter03.html#chapter03)
  
  
  Less than a hundred miles of mountainous terrain separated Crystal…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Four](010-chapter04.html#chapter04)
  
  
  “He do