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A GIRL NAMED DISASTER

A GIRL NAMED DISASTER

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A GIRL NAMED DISASTER

by Farmer, Nancy

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ISBN 10
0531095398
ISBN 13
9780531095393
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NY: Orchard Books, 1996 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a FINE Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. National Book Award Finalist and 1997 Newbery Honor Book, National Book Finalist no award medals on dust jacket. 309 pgs, boards. 11 year-old Nhamo flees from her village and family & sets out by boat for Zimbabwe when she is told she must marry a cruel man with three wives. A two-day trip becomes nearly a year long odyssey..

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
Windy Hill Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
030885
Title
A GIRL NAMED DISASTER
Author
Farmer, Nancy
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0531095398
ISBN 13
9780531095393
Publisher
NY: Orchard Books, 1996
Place of Publication
New York
This edition first published
1996-09
Bookseller catalogs
NEWBERY HONOR; AWARDS-MISC;

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