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A girl named Disaster by Nancy Farmer · Booklabria

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A girl named Disaster

Adventure storiesAdventure fiction

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First published: 1996
Language: English
Editions: 6

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Adventure stories
Adventure fiction
Children's fiction
Social life and customs
Adventure and adventurers
Supernatural
Set in: Africa
Zimbabwe
Mozambique

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