A Girl Named Disaster
by:
Nancy Farmer (author)
This Newbery Honor book by award-winning, bestselling author Nancy Farmer is being reissued in paperback!Eleven-year-old Nhamo lives in a traditional village in Mozambique, where she doesn't quite fit in. When her family tries to force her into marrying a cruel man, she runs away to Zimbabwe,...
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This Newbery Honor book by award-winning, bestselling author Nancy Farmer is being reissued in paperback!Eleven-year-old Nhamo lives in a traditional village in Mozambique, where she doesn't quite fit in. When her family tries to force her into marrying a cruel man, she runs away to Zimbabwe, hoping to find the father she's never met. But what should have been a short boat trip across the border turns into a dangerous year-long adventure, and Nhamo must summon her innermost courage to ensure her survival.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780545356626 (0545356628)
ASIN: 545356628
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
What a lovely, painful, real story this was. I love this author's way with words - the cadence of the stories our heroine tells, the way things are described, the lonliness of the islands, the realities of the many places she finds herself in... I very much enjoyed this book. I enjoyed the heroine a...
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