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The boy who harnessed the wind: creating currents of electricity and hope

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Kamkwamba, William, 1987-
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Description
Relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
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Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
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Electric power production -- Malawi
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Inventors
Inventors -- Malawi
Juvenile Nonfiction
Kamkwamba, William
Kamkwamba, William, -- 1987-
Malawi -- Rural conditions
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Rural conditions
Rural electrification
Rural electrification -- Malawi
Technology
Water-supply, Rural
Water-supply, Rural -- Malawi
Windmills
Windmills -- Malawi
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Mealer, Bryan
ISBN:
9780061730337
9780061992162
9780061730320
9780061937699
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6.4, 15 Points
Lexile measure:
960L
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Last Grouping Update2023-12-03 04:32:38AM
Last Indexed2023-12-03 05:11:42AM

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