The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind Analysis

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The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by: William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. This is an inspiring nonfiction story about a boy named William Kamkwamba. William is a hardworking grade school student that is getting prepared to take the test to get into secondary school (middle school). He lives in a small town in Africa called Malawi a poor village, his parents are middle class farmers. William passed his middle school test will grades that he was not too proud of. He gets into a poor school ,but it was a step up from the elementary school. He is soon forced to leave the school because his family can’t afford it because a drought that has just recently hit Malawi. A drought has just recently begun, and the family is struggling to keep food on

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