A Girl Named Disaster
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Cover of original release, showing Nhamo |
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Author | Nancy Farmer |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Children's, |
Publisher | Orchard Books |
Released | September 1996 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 320 (first edition, hardback) |
ISBN | ISBN 0531095398 (first edition, hardback) |
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 book by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique, which is where Nhamo (which means "Disaster") lived before she set out on a quest to find her father in Zimbabwe. She has to marry a cruel man and runs away. She steals a boat and goes through starvation in the heart of a great lake.
Farmer won the Newbery Honor for the book in 1997.