num_pages: 336
description: Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from Zimbabwe to Mozambique. Alone on the river in a stolen boat, swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake, she battles drowning, starvation, wild animals.
title: A Girl Named Disaster
titlecomplete: A Girl Named Disaster
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Survival, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 4968
places: Zimbabwe, Mozambique
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: California Book Award
category: Juvenile (Silver), awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Young People's Literature
publisher: Puffin