A GIRL NAMED DISASTER
by Farmer, Nancy
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Seller
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Bacova, Virginia, United States
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Synopsis
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where a young girl named Nhamo (which means "disaster" in Shona) is told by a shaman that she will have to marry the brother of a man her father murdered, to rid her village of an epidemic of cholera. The brother of Gore Mtoko is said to be a middle-aged and evil man who is already married. Nhamo is instructed by her ill grandmother to run away and find her father in Zimbabwe.
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- Bookseller
- Windy Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030250
- Title
- A GIRL NAMED DISASTER
- Author
- Farmer, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Publisher
- NY: Orchard Books, 1996
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1996-09
- Bookseller catalogs
- NEWBERY HONOR; AWARDS-MISC;
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- Fine
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