Free shipping on orders over $99
A Girl Named Disaster

A Girl Named Disaster

by Nancy Farmer
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/10/2003

Share This Book:

 
Orchard Classics is a collectible hardcover line of award-winning titles from the Orchard backlist with fresh, beautiful new designs and new author prefaces and discussion guides.

A GIRL NAMED DISASTER is the humorous and heart-wrenching story of young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional village in Mozambique in 1981. When her family tries to force her into a marriage with a cruel man, she flees. What was supposed to have been a short boat trip across the border into Zimbabwe, where she hoped to find her father, turns into an adventure filled with challenges and danger that spans a year.
ISBN:
9780439471442
9780439471442
Category:
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-10-2003
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scholastic, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
236.73x160.02x26.16mm
Weight:
0.54kg
Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor books: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The House of the Scorpion, which also won the National Book Award and the Printz Honor.

Other books include The Lord of Opium, The Sea of Trolls, The Land of the Silver Apples, The Islands of the Blessed, Do You Know Me, The Warm Place, and three picture books for young children. She grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border and now lives with her family in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

Reviews

Be the first to review A Girl Named Disaster.