TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kamkwamba,William
AU  - Mealer,Bryan
AU  - Zunon,Elizabeth
TI  - The boy who harnessed the wind 
SN  - 9780803735118 (hardback : acid-free paper)
AV  - TJ140.K36 A3 2012
U1  - 621.4/53096897 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dial Books for Young Readers
KW  - Kamkwamba, William,
KW  - Mechanical engineers
KW  - Malawi
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Windmills
KW  - Electric power production
KW  - Irrigation
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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