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A girl named Disaster / Nancy Farmer.

Farmer, Nancy, 1941- (Author).

Summary:

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.-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 0531088898
  • ISBN: 9780531088890
  • ISBN: 0531095398
  • ISBN: 9780531095393
  • Physical Description: 309 pages
  • Publisher: New York : Orchard Books, [1996]

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730L Lexile
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Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.1 14 15809.

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Subject:
Shona (African people) > Juvenile fiction.
Survival > Juvenile fiction.
Mozambique > Juvenile fiction.
Zimbabwe > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Paranormal fiction.
Fiction.

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  • 30 of 34 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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