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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

Published: 2009-10-01

Hardcover: 273 pages

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William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Energy, and he dreamed ...

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by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

Published: 2010-07-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 perc...

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The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank: A Novel

by Ellen Feldman

Published: 2006-05-22

Paperback: 288 pages

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"An appealing and inventive novel…original and cathartic."—Dana Kennedy, New York TimesOn February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided in her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himsel...

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The Boy Who Met Jesus: Segatashya of Kibeho

by Immaculee Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin

Published: 2011-11-28

Hardcover: 219 pages

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     It's the greatest story never told: that of a boy who met Jesus and dared to ask Him all the questions that have consumed mankind since the dawn of time.    His name was Segatashya. He was a shepherd born into a penniless and illiterate pagan family in the most remote region of...

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The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window

by Kirsty Moseley

Published: 2012-04-09

Paperback: 274 pages

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Amber Walker and her older brother, Jake, have an abusive father. One night her brother's best friend, Liam, sees her crying and climbs through her bedroom window to comfort her. That one action sparks a love/hate relationship that spans over the next eight years. Liam is now a confident, flirty player...

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The Boyfriend School

by Sarah Bird

Published: 1990-09-01

Paperback: 309 pages

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Gretchen Griner is an underpaid, underappreciated photographer for the Austin (that's Texas) Grackle, part-time lover of Peter Overton Treadwell III (known as ?Trout?), and major consumer of Cup O? Soup. That is, until she meets Lizzie Potts?otherwise known as Viveca Lamoureaux, romance wr...

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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

by J. M. Coetzee

Published: 1998

Paperback: 176 pages

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J.M. Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, with a father he despised and a mother he both adored and resented. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life under apartheid is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for. "Exceptional. . . . A scorched...

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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

by Leonard Sax

Published: 2009-01-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. While Emily is working hard...

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The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile

by Patrick Symmes

Published: 2007-07-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From the author of Chasing Che, the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. The Boys from Dolores illuminates the elite island society from which Fidel Castro and his brother Raul emerged.The Colegio de Dolores was a Jesuit boarding school in...

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The Boys in the Band: 40th Anniversary Edition

by Mart Crowley

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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?Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defined by the pain.??The New York TimesThe Boys in the Band was the first commercially successful play to reveal gay life to mainstream America. Alyson is proud to release a special fortieth ann...