The boy who harnessed the wind
By: William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; illustrated by Anna Hymas
Contributors: Mealer, Bryan, author; Hymas, Anna, illustrator
Edition: Young readers edition.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780545946032
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Mechanical engineers; Biography; Windmills; Electric power production; Irrigation
Description: "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"--