The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition) cover

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition)

Author: Kamkwamba, William

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.8
Points 9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 58297
Points per Word 0.000154
Page Count 320
Points per Page 0.028125

Description

When William, a Malawian teen, began building a windmill from scraps and claimed the machine would generate electricity, everyone in his village thought he was crazy. The coauthor is Bryan Mealer.