The boy who harnessed the wind / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; pictures by Elizabeth Zunon. --
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2012.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. illISBN:- 0803735111
- 9780803735118
- 621.4/53096897 22
- TJ140.K36 A3 2012
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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J Picture | West Grey Neustadt Branch Shelves | Fiction | JP KAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 32107000521786 |
"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.
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