The boy who harnessed the wind
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The boy who harnessed the wind
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- Label
- The boy who harnessed the wind
- Statement of responsibility
- William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; pictures by Elizabeth Zunon
- Subject
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- trueElectric power production
- Electric power production -- Malawi -- Juvenile literature
- trueInventors -- Malawi -- Biography
- trueIrrigation
- Irrigation -- Malawi -- Juvenile literature
- Kamkwamba, William, 1987-
- Kamkwamba, William, 1987- -- Juvenile literature
- trueMalawi
- Mechanical engineers -- Malawi -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Picture books for children
- trueRural electrification
- trueWindmills
- Windmills -- Malawi -- Juvenile literature
- trueAfrica
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Award
- Children’s Africana Book Awards, Young Children, 2013.
- Awards note
- 2013 Sakura Award Nomination.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 621.4/53096897
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 0
- 3
- Target audience
- juvenile
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