The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

William Kamkwamba with Bryan Mealer

270 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography science emotional reflective slow-paced

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When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library . . . and figured out how to bring electricity t...

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adventurous 15%
challenging 13%
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dark 5%
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tense 4%
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