A Girl Named Disaster
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 Cover of original release, showing Nhamo |
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| Author | Nancy Farmer |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's, |
| Publisher | Orchard Books |
| Released | September 1996 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0531095398 (first edition, hardback) |
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 book by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique, which is where Nhamo (which means "Disaster") lived before she set out on a quest to find her father in Zimbabwe. She has to marry a cruel man and runs away. She steals a boat and goes through starvation in the heart of a great lake.
Farmer won the Newbery Honor for the book in 1997.
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