A girl named Disaster / Nancy Farmer.
1996
PZ7.F23814 Gi 1996 (Mapit)
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Title
A girl named Disaster / Nancy Farmer.
Author
ISBN
0531088898 (lib. bdg.)
0531095398
0531095398
Publication Details
New York : Orchard Books, c1996.
Language
English
Description
309 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PZ7.F23814 Gi 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
[Fic]
Summary
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.
Note
"A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-309).
Awards
Newbery Honor, 1997.
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