A Girl Named Disaster

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Title A Girl Named Disaster
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Cover of original release, showing Nhamo
Author Nancy Farmer
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.