An edition of A girl named Disaster (1996)

A girl named Disaster

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An edition of A girl named Disaster (1996)

A girl named Disaster

Large print ed.

by

  • ★★★★★ 5.00 ·
  • 1 Rating
  • 25 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

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.

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Thorndike Press
Language
English

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Subjects
Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Supernatural, Survival, Shona (African people), Shona (African people) -- Juvenile fiction, Shona (African people) -- Fiction, Survival -- Fiction, Supernatural -- Fiction, Mozambique -- Fiction, Zimbabwe -- Fiction, Africa -- Fiction, Social life and customs, Adventure and adventurers, Adventure stories, Wilderness survival, Adventure fiction, 1000blackgirlbooks, Newbery Honor, Paranormal fiction, Children's fiction, Zimbabwe, fiction, Supernatural, fiction, award:Newbery_award
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Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Africa

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Cover of: A girl named Disaster
A girl named Disaster
2005, Thorndike Press
in English - Large print ed.
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Cover of: A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard Classics)
A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard Classics)
October 1, 2003, Orchard
in English
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Girl Named Disaster
April 1, 2001, Penguin Putnam~trade
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A girl named disaster
1998, Puffin Books
in English
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A girl named Disaster
1998, Puffin Books
in English
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A girl named Disaster
1996, Orchard Books
in English
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Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3404867M
ISBN 10
0786280379
LCCN
2005020324
OCLC/WorldCat
61211200
Library Thing
1920246
Goodreads
1172719

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Crouched on a branch of a mukuyu tree,a girl tore open a speckled fruit.
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