Region: Malawi

Materials from Malawi

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

By Book Importer | Published: April 3, 2012

When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba’s Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone’s crops began to fail. His family didn’t have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring [...]

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Chewa

By Book Importer | Published: August 24, 2011

This book presents the history, culture, art, and economics of the Chewa people of Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique.

Other Descriptors: Africa, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mozambique, Nonfiction, Zimbabwe » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

City Boy

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Set in contemporary Malawi, a poignant account of an orphaned boy’s transition from city life to village life. Sam’s widowed mother has died from “the Disease,” and Sam is claimed by his aunt Mercy, who lives in the small African village where Sam’s mother was born and raised. The gap between Sam’s life in the [...]

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Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk about AIDS

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

In Malawi and Zambia, children who have lost family to the AIDS pandemic tell their stories. This book is about the power of the human spirits to endure and hope for a better tommorrow.

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The Heaven Shop

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Binti and her siblings struggle to survive when they are split up and sent to different parts of Malawi after their parents die of AIDS.

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