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A girl named Disaster

Name: A girl named Disaster
Author: Nancy Farmer

by Nancy Farmer

Young AdultAdventure

1996

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.

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