The boy who harnessed the wind / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; pictures by Elizabeth Zunon. --

By:

Kamkwamba, William, 1987-

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2012.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. illISBN:

0803735111
9780803735118

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DDC classification:

621.4/53096897 22

LOC classification:

TJ140.K36 A3 2012

Summary: "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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
J Picture	West Grey Neustadt Branch Shelves	Fiction	JP KAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		32107000521786

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"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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