The boy who harnessed the wind
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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"--
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Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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New Rochelle Public Library | J B KAMKWAMBA (Text) Juvenile Biography |
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- ISBN: 9780803735118 (hardback : acid-free paper) :
- ISBN: 0803735111 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Publisher: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2012.
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