Crouched on a branch of a mukuyu tree,a girl tore open a speckled fruit.
An edition of A girl named Disaster
(1996)
A girl named Disaster
Large print ed.
by Nancy Farmer
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While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
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Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Supernatural, Survival, Shona (African people), Shona (African people) -- Juvenile fiction, Shona (African people) -- Fiction, Survival -- Fiction, Supernatural -- Fiction, Mozambique -- Fiction, Zimbabwe -- Fiction, Africa -- Fiction, Social life and customs, Adventure and adventurers, Adventure stories, Wilderness survival, Adventure fiction, 1000blackgirlbooks, Newbery Honor, Paranormal fiction, Children's fiction, Zimbabwe, fiction, Supernatural, fiction, award:Newbery_awardPlaces
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A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard Classics)
October 1, 2003, Orchard
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| October 8, 2017 | Edited by MARC Bot | merge duplicate works of 'A girl named Disaster' |
| April 29, 2011 | Edited by OCLC Bot | Added OCLC numbers. |
| July 31, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 16, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record |