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A Girl Named Disaster
by Farmer, Nancy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0531088898
- ISBN 13
- 9780531088890
- Seller
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Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Orchard Books, 1996. Later. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Minor Thumbing, Date To Ffe, Else Tight And Clean.
Synopsis
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where a young girl named Nhamo (which means "disaster" in Shona) is told by a shaman that she will have to marry the brother of a man her father murdered, to rid her village of an epidemic of cholera. The brother of Gore Mtoko is said to be a middle-aged and evil man who is already married. Nhamo is instructed by her ill grandmother to run away and find her father in Zimbabwe.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burke's Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 194802
- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster
- Author
- Farmer, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later
- ISBN 10
- 0531088898
- ISBN 13
- 9780531088890
- Publisher
- Orchard Books
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Young Adult Fiction, , , , , , , ,
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