Each Friday I share the link to a read-aloud preview of a book from SRCSA library. The “First-chapter Friday” selection for Feb. 10, 2023 is The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba’s tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season’s crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family’s life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William’s windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land. This young readers’ edition was a 2016 nominee for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Excellence in Nonfiction Award.