Farmer, Nancy.

A girl named Disaster / Nancy Farmer. - New York : Orchard Books, c1996. - 309 p., map ; 23 cm.

"A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-309).

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: 0531095398 0531088898 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN: 96015141 /AC/r97

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

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

LC Class. No.: PZ7.F23814 / Gi 1996

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]