Bryan Mealer

'In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history. They eventually settle in the small town of Big Spring, where fast fortunes are being made from its own reserves of oil. For the next two generations, the Mealers live on the margins...

"When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to...

In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds.

El sueno de un nino puede cambiar el mundo entero. Esta es una inspiradora historia, basada en la vida real del autor, sobre el poder de la imaginacion y la fuerza de la determinacion. Cuando una terrible sequia asolo la pequena aldea donde vivia William Kamkwamba, su familia perdio todas las cosechas y se quedo sin nada que comer y nada que vender. William comenzo entonces a investigar en los libros de ciencia que habia en la biblioteca en busca...