When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village washit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enoughmoney for food, let alone school, William spent his days in thelibrary . . . and figured out how to bring electricity to hisvillage. Persevering against the odds, William built a functioningwindmill out of junkyard scraps, and thus became the local hero whoharnessed the wind.
Lyrically told and gloriously illustrated, this story will inspiremany as it shows how - even in the worst of times - a great ideaand a lot of hard work can still rock the world.