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Title
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (39147)
Physical Illustrated; 293 pages
Copyrighted 2012
Distributor Penguin books (3167)
Audience Primary, Intermediate, Junior High (PIJ)
Collection Professional Library
Synopsis African teenager William Kamkwamba explored science books in his village library when he was forced to drop out of school, and was able to change his family's life by creating a windmill to pump water for his family's farm.
Author Kamkwamba, William
Added autho Mealer, Bryan,; Hymas, Anna
Dimensions 20 cm
Edition Young readers edition.
ISBN# 9780147510426
Stmt Resp William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer ; illustrated by Anna Hymas.
Subjects Electric power—Malawi; Engineers—Malawi—Biography; Inventors—Malawi—Biography; Irrigation—Malawi; Malawi—Rural conditions; Mechanical engineering—Biography; Windmills—Malawi; Diversity(CK); Hymas, Anna,—illustrator(A); Kamkwamba, William,—1987-(A); Mealer, Bryan,—author(A)
Call# FIC KAM
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