A Girl Named Disaster - Hardcover

Farmer, Nancy

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0531095398 ISBN 13: 9780531095393

Publisher: Orchard Books, 1996

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Orchard Classics is a collectible hardcover line of Newbery award-winning titles from the Orchard backlist that have fresh, beautiful new designs and include author prefaces and discussion guides.

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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Review:

* "An unforgettable work." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review
* "Rewarding." --KIRKUS, starred review
* "This story is humorous and heart wrenching, complex and multilayered. . . . An engrossing and memorable saga." --SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review
* "An unforgettable work." -- "Publishers Weekly," starred review
* "Rewarding." -- "Kirkus Reviews," starred review
* "This story is humorous and heart wrenching, complex and multilayered. . . . An engrossing and memorable saga." -- "School Library Journal," starred review

Book Description:

An enthralling story of adventure and survival in a world inhabited by wild animals - and by the spirits of the dead.

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