Detail
- Title
- The boy who harnessed the wind
- Author
- Kamkwamba, William
- Mealer, Bryan
- Publisher
- Dial Books
- Publication Date
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9780803735118
- Collation
- 1 volume
- Format
- Braille UEB
- Grade Level
- Kindergarten
- 01
- 02
- Abstract
- 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.
- Notes
- Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
- Unified English Braille