The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Reader's Edition

These books, one for children and one for general reading, tell the story of William Kamkwamba, who, as a boy in born in Malawi, built a windmill from junkyard scraps in order to help feed his village. William, who dropped out of school due to the needs of his family's farm during a time of famine, studied science books from the library where he learned how to create a windmill. He built windmills both to generate electricity so that he could listen to the radio and have lights in his family home and for water for the farm. According to the story: "With a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks; some scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves; and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him."