A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer

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A Girl Named Disaster is the humorous and heart wrenching story of a young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is an 11-year-old Shona girl living in Mozambique in 1981. After the death of her mother, Nhamo is left a virtual slave in her small African village. Upon learning that before her 12th birthday she must marry a cruel man with three other wives, Nhamo desperately decides to run away. What was supposed to have been a short boat trip across the border into Zimbabwe, where she hoped to find her father, turns into an adventure filled with challenges and danger that...

A Girl Named Disaster is the humorous and heart wrenching story of a young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is an 11-year-old Shona girl living in Mozambique in 1981. After the death of her mother, Nhamo is left a virtual slave in her small African village. Upon learning that before her 12th birthday she must marry a cruel man with three other wives, Nhamo desperately decides to run away. What was supposed to have been a short boat trip across the border into Zimbabwe, where she hoped to find her father, turns into an adventure filled with challenges and danger that lasts a year.

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Item #:NTS535662
ISBN13:9780545356626
Format:Paperback Book
Pages:336
Trim Size:5-¹⁄₄x 7-⁵⁄₈
Publisher:Scholastic Inc.
Theme:Courage,
African,
Survival,
African
Genre:Adventure,
Historical Fiction
Subject:Loneliness,
Challenges and Overcoming Obstacles,
Coming of Age,
Running Away,
Survival,
Ceremony and Tradition,
African
Grades:6 - 10
Lexile® Measure:730L
Reading Level:X
DRA Level:60
ACR Level:5.1
Language:English