A girl named disaster

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.

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Main Author: Farmer, Nancy, 1941-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Puffin Books, 1998.
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300 |a p. cm. 
520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Shona (African people)  |v Young adult fiction. 
650 0 |a Supernatural  |v Young adult fiction. 
651 0 |a Zimbabwe  |v Young adult fiction. 
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