A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0439471443
- ISBN 13
- 9780439471442
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Scholastic, Incorporated, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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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- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster
- Author
- Nancy Farmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0439471443
- ISBN 13
- 9780439471442
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2003
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