A girl named Disaster /

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by Farmer, Nancy.
[ 02. English Fiction ] Published by : Orchard Books, (New York :) Physical details: 309 p., map ; 23 cm. Subject(s): Shona (African people) --Juvenile fiction. | Shona (African people) --Fiction. | Survival --Fiction. | Supernatural --Fiction. | Mozambique --Fiction. | Zimbabwe --Fiction. Year : 1996 02. English Fiction Item type : 02. English Fiction
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Amherst Cove Consolidated School F FAR Available

"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.