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Author Farmer, Nancy, 1941-

Title A girl named Disaster / Nancy Farmer.

Imprint New York : Puffin Books, 1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Nettels Fiction  F Farmer    ---  Available
Description 309 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([307]-309).
Indexed In: Publishers Weekly 10/28/96
Voya 12/96
School Library Journal 10/96
Kirkus 09/15/96
Summary 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.
Audience 6-9
5.6
Lexile value, 730 Metametrics
Study Program AR, Accelerated Reader/Advantage Learning Systems RL 5.6 16.0 15809
Awards Newbery Honor
Subject Shona (African people) -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Mozambique -- Fiction.
Zimbabwe -- Fiction.
ISBN 0140386351

 
    
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