TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farmer,Nancy
TI  - A girl named Disaster
SN  - 0531095398 (hdbk.)
AV  - PZ7.F23814 Gi 2003
U1  - [Fic] 20
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Orchard Books
KW  - Shona (African people)
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Survival
KW  - Supernatural
KW  - Mozambique
KW  - Zimbabwe
KW  - Africa
N1  - "A 1997 Newbery honor book"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-309)
N2  - 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
ER  -