The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Penguin Young Readers

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

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by William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer; illustrated by Anna Hymas

The inspiring true story of a Malawi teenager who brought electricity to his struggling village--now in the ideal classroom-ready edition.

William Kamkwamba grew up in a tiny farming village in Malawi, Africa, without electricity.  When a drought destroyed the crops and famine resulted, William's family could no longer afford his school tuition.  He continued to study on his own, though, painstakingly translating an English science textbook and figuring out how to build a windmill out of old bike parts and other scraps.  To the wonder of his community, he brought electricity to his home, and later to his whole village -- and thus water as well. Includes an eight-page insert of photographs.

Young Readers Edition.

Recommended for ages 10 years and up.

Softcover, 304 pages.

Printed in the United States.

 

William Kamkwamba is a graduate of Dartmouth College. 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: Winning and Losing in Football’s Forgotten Town and the New York Times bestseller The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which he wrote with William Kamkwamba, in addition to the children’s book of the same title. He’s 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 work has appeared in the anthology Best American Travel Writing and was chosen for an Overseas Press Club Award Citation. He and his family live in Austin, Texas.

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