Crouched on a branch of a mukuyu tree,a girl tore open a speckled fruit.
An edition of A girl named Disaster
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A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard Classics)
by Nancy Farmer
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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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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_awardPlaces
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A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard Classics)
October 1, 2003, Orchard
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| January 3, 2024 | Edited by Bernat Fortet | Add Juvenile subject |
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