A Girl Named Disaster
by:
Nancy Farmer (author)
A GIRL NAMED DISASTER is the humorous and heartwrenching story of young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional village in Mozambique in 1981. When her family tries to force her...
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A GIRL NAMED DISASTER is the humorous and heartwrenching story of young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional village in Mozambique in 1981. When her family tries to force her into a marriage with a cruel man, she flees. What was supposed to have been a short boat trip across the border into Zimbabwe, where she hoped to find her father, turns into an adventure filled with challenges and danger that lasts a year.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780531095393 (0531095398)
Publish date: September 1st 1996
Publisher: Orchard Books
Pages no: 320
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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