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A Girl Named Disaster
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A Girl Named Disaster Paperback - 1998

by Farmer, Nancy

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  • Title A Girl Named Disaster
  • Author Farmer, Nancy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 309
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Puffin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-03-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-G-07i-01180
  • ISBN 9780140386356 / 0140386351
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.77 x 5.13 x 0.89 in (19.74 x 13.03 x 2.26 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 730
  • Library of Congress subjects Supernatural, Zimbabwe
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97028173
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Nhamo’s mother is dead, and her father is gone. She is a virtual slave in her small African village. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo learns that she must marry a cruel man with three other wives and decides desperately to run away. Alone on the river, in a stolen boat, she is swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake. There, she battles drowning, starvation, and wild animals, and comes to know Africa’s mystical, luminous spirits. Nancy Farmer’s masterful storytelling makes this a truly spellbinding novel and readers will be cheering for Nhamo from beginning to end. A gripping adventure, equally a survival story and a spiritual voyage. Nhamo is a stunning creation while she serves as a fictional ambassador from a foreign culture, she is supremely human. An unforgettable work.

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