TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kamkwamba,William
AU  - Mealer,Bryan
AU  - Hymas,Anna
TI  - The boy who harnessed the wind
SN  - 9780147510426
AV  - TJ140.K36 A3 2016
U1  - 621.453096897B 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Puffin Books
KW  - Kamkwamba, William,
KW  - Mechanical engineers
KW  - Malawi
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Windmills
KW  - Electric power production
KW  - Irrigation
KW  - fast
KW  - Juvenile works
N1  - Accelerated reader; 5.8; 9.0 pts
N2  - "When William Kamkwamba was a young teen, a terrible famine struck his tiny village in Malawi, Africa. The loss of crops left his family with nothing to eat or sell. Without money, William was forced to drop out of school. Fortunately, William found hope in the village library. There, he came up with an idea that would change the lives of the people around him. He would beuild a windmill. made from junkyard scraps, William's amazing creation would bring electricity to his home. It would help his family pump the water they  needed to farm the land. And it would turn this ordinary African teenager into a hero known all around the world as the boy who harnessed the wind." -- Back cover
ER  -