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A Girl Named Disaster (Newbery Honor Book)
by Farmer, Nancy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0531088898
- ISBN 13
- 9780531088890
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Orchard Books. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Has some shelf wear, highlighting, underlining and/or writing. Great used condition. A portion of your purchase of this book will be donated to non-profit organizations.Over 1,000,000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping (if available) for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders.
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
- The Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10669165
- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster (Newbery Honor Book)
- Author
- Farmer, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0531088898
- ISBN 13
- 9780531088890
- Publisher
- Orchard Books
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1996-10
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 22 oz
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