A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0531088898
- ISBN 13
- 9780531088890
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About This Item
Scholastic, Incorporated, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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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- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster
- Author
- Nancy Farmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0531088898
- ISBN 13
- 9780531088890
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1996
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