The boy who harnessed the wind
William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer, Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)
"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps. Several years later he figured out how to use the windmill for irrigation purposes"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, ©2012
Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, ©2012
Picture books for children
850L Sentence length: 4 (hard) Word frequency: 3 (medium)
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
9780803735118, 9781451741186, 0803735111, 1451741189
731911797
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