TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kamkwamba, William
AU  - Zunon, Elizabeth
TI  - The boy who harnessed the wind
SN  - 9780545591881
AV  - TJ140.K36 A3 
U1  - 621.4 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Famine
KW  - Innovation
KW  - Determination
KW  - Engineering
N1  - W
; 850
; Lexile
; W
; Raz-Plus

N2  - "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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