A Girl Named Disaster book by Nancy Farmer
By Nancy FarmerA Girl Named Disaster book by Nancy Farmer
Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from Zimbabwe to Mozambique. Alone on the river in a stolen boat, swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake, she battles drowning, starvation, wild animals.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 309 pages
- English
- 0439542510
- 9780439542517
About Nancy Farmer
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