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Title The boy who harnessed the wind / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; pictures by Elizabeth Zunon.
Author Kamkwamba, William, 1987-
Publisher New York : Rocky Pond Books, [2012]
Copyright ©2012.
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color photographs ; 29 cm
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LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 LW-Children's Room  JB (PICTURE BOOK) KAMKWAMBA Nearby on shelf  30641004267279 11-27-23  AVAILABLE
NOTE Accelerated Reader LG 5.3 0.5 148136
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.
Audience 850L Lexile
Subject Kamkwamba, William, 1987- -- Juvenile literature.
Electric power production -- Malawi -- Juvenile literature.
Irrigation -- Malawi -- Juvenile literature.
Mechanical engineers -- Juvenile literature.
Mechanical engineers -- Malawi -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Windmills -- Malawi -- Juvenile literature.
Add'l Names Mealer, Bryan.
Zunon, Elizabeth, illustrator.
ISBN 9780803735118
0803735111