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When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library . . . and figured out how to bring electricity to his village. Persevering against the odds, William built a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps, and thus became the local hero who harnessed the wind.

Lyrically told and gloriously illustrated, this story will inspire many as it shows how - even in the worst of times - a great idea and a lot of hard work can still rock the world.

威廉．坎寬巴住在非洲馬拉威，他住的地區在他十四歲那年，飽受乾旱的肆虐，他的村莊因此走到窮途末路的地步。威廉的夢想是要為村裡帶來電力跟自來水。
威廉向來都對機械裝置很有興趣，為了讀懂科學教科書，他下苦功自學英文，仔細讀完好幾本舊教科書。他下定決心要打造風車。村裡的人都說他是瘋子，但他知道自己勝券在握。他到廢料場裡撿拾破銅爛鐵，漸漸拼湊成可以運轉的風車，雖然進展緩慢，但是按部就班的進行。他不僅成功把電力帶進自己的家，最後也將可以救命的用水引入自己的村莊。
書以抒情的風格和亮眼的插畫講述威廉的故事，讀者可以看到，不管你年紀多小、不管挑戰有多艱鉅，只要憑著創意、決心跟努力，就可以幫忙拯救你所屬的世界。