The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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Japanese edition of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. True story of a boy growing up in an improvised, desolate central Africa. The 14 year old William Kamkwamba learned about electrical windmills at a small library, and after weeks of foraging for junk parts, he did the incredible. In Japanese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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A story about a boy who reads a book and learns how to build a windmill to bring water from the earth and help save his family and friends in the midst of a drought.
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The Creatives Behind the Book
William Kamkwamba recently graduated from Dartmouth College. The original version of his memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind was a New York Times Bestseller and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. He divides his time between Malawi and San Francisco, California.
Bryan Mealer is the author of Muck City and the New York Times bestseller The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which he wrote with William Kamkwamba. Since publication, the book has received many honors and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Mealer is also the author of All Things Must Fight to Live, which chronicled his years covering the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Harper’s and the Associated Press. His forthcoming book, The Kings of Big Spring, a multi-generational saga about his family in West Texas, will be published by Flatiron Books in early 2018. He and his family live in Austin.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780147510426
- Publication Date
- January 1, 2016
- Publisher
- Rocky Pond Books
- Original Publication Date
- September 29, 2009
- Page Count
- 304
- Words Per Page
- 298
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 10 - 13 years
- Lexile® Level
- 860L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~T
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~5.5
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