A girl named Disaster /
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Orchard Books, c2003Description: 309 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0531095398 (hdbk.); 0439471443 (paper over board)Subject(s): Shona (African people) -- Juvenile fiction | Shona (African people) -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Supernatural -- Fiction | Mozambique -- Fiction | Zimbabwe -- Fiction | Africa -- FictionDDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PZ7.F23814 | Gi 2003Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"A 1997 Newbery honor book"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-309).
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.