2011-06-ShirleyWilliams

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6-1-2011

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READ poster featured: Shirley Williams, Librarian
Book selected: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Date poster was featured: June 2011

Comments by Shirley Williams about the book:
"This is the true story of a remarkable young teenager in Malawi who would not let poverty and severe famine keep him from learning what he wanted to know. When he was forced to drop out of school because his parents could not afford the fees, he went to a library in the town and studied diagrams in science books written in a language he could not understand (English). Using scraps from the local junk yard, he succeeded in constructing a windmill which produced electricity for his family and changed his life."

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