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 build a windmill that...
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.,
[2012]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Kamkwamba, William, |d 1987- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The boy who harnessed the wind / |c William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; pictures by Elizabeth Zunon. |
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| 520 | |a "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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| 650 | 0 | |a Mechanical engineers |z Malawi |v Biography |v Juvenile nonfiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Windmills |z Malawi |v Juvenile nonfiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Electric power production |z Malawi |v Juvenile nonfiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Irrigation |z Malawi |v Juvenile nonfiction. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Mealer, Bryan, |e author. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Zunon, Elizabeth, |e illustrator. | |
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