The boy who harnessed the wind /
"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 b...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dial Books for Young Readers,
[2012]
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| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780803735118 (hardback : acid-free paper) 0803735111 (hardback : acid-free paper) |