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A girl named Disaster /

While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farmer, Nancy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Orchard Books, [1996]
Subjects:
Shona (African people) > Juvenile fiction.
Shona (African people) > Fiction.
Survival > Fiction.
Supernatural > Fiction.
Mozambique > Fiction.
Zimbabwe > Fiction.
Description
Summary:While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
Item Description:"A Richard Jackson book"--Half title page.
Physical Description:309 pages, map ; 23 cm.
Awards:Newbery Honor Book, 1997
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309).
ISBN:0531095398
0531088898 (lib. bdg.)