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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope - William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781606867358 (1606867350)
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
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mattries37315
mattries37315 rated it
5.0 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
How does a 14-year old high school dropout in a small famine-stricken country in south eastern Africa build a windmill? William Kamkwamba tells how he did in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a memoir of a young man who wanted to ensure a better life for his family by using ideas inspired by science ...
Merle
Merle rated it
3.5 The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
This is a memoir by a young man from Malawi who, as a teenager, built a windmill – with only a book to guide him and using materials he was able to scrounge locally – to bring electricity to his home. William Kamkwamba is born one of several children in a farming family in rural Malawi, grows up wit...
Kinga's Books
Kinga's Books rated it
5.0 William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Finally good news.I can't begin to tell you what a joy to read this book was. Every adult and every kid should read it (except for those kids whose parents are not ok with them reading vivid descriptions of someone dying from gonorrhoea - but even those kids should probably rebel against their paren...
Osho
Osho rated it
5.0 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
An engaging hopeful memoir by a dedicated and resourceful young man who vastly improved the lives of his family and neighbors. Reading it was--a word I've never used in a review before--heartwarming.
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it
4.0
Rating: 4.5* of five The Book Report: The book description says: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 e...
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