A girl named Disaster
By: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780140386356
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Supernatural; Survival; Shona (African people)
Description: While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-309).