Farmer, Nancy, 1941-

A girl named disaster / Nancy Farmer MP09 - New York : Puffin Books, 1998. - 309 p. ; 20 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0140386351 (paperback)

LCCN: 97028173

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Shona (African people)--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Supernatural--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mozambique--Fiction.
Zimbabwe--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.F23814 / Gi 1998

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]