The boy who harnessed the wind
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/BIOGRAPHY/621.453/KAMKWAMBA,W
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PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780803735118 (hardback : acid-free paper), 0803735111 (hardback : acid-free paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"--
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