A girl named Disaster
By: by Nancy Farmer.
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
Subjects: Shona (African people) -- Juvenile fiction.; Large type books.; Shona (African people) -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Supernatural -- Fiction.; Large type books.; Mozambique -- Fiction.; Zimbabwe -- Fiction.; Africa -- Fiction.
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.