A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- YOUNG READER As New No Jacket
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El Paso, Texas, United States
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About This Item
1998. Hardcover. YOUNG READER As New No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1997 Newberry Honor Book.
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
- The Sun Also Rises (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001779
- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster
- Author
- Nancy Farmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New YOUNG READER As New No Jacket
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Jacket
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- 12mo
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- New
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