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A Girl Named Disaster
by Farmer, Nancy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Seller
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Orchard Books, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very good with some sticker pulls/residue to FFEP. Near fine jacket with newbery and national book award medals. First printing.
Synopsis
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where a young girl named Nhamo (which means "disaster" in Shona) is told by a shaman that she will have to marry the brother of a man her father murdered, to rid her village of an epidemic of cholera. The brother of Gore Mtoko is said to be a middle-aged and evil man who is already married. Nhamo is instructed by her ill grandmother to run away and find her father in Zimbabwe.
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- Bookseller
- Peruse the Stacks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 435
- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster
- Author
- Farmer, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Publisher
- Orchard Books
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1996
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- Fine
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- FFEP
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