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A Girl Named Disaster
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780140386356
ISBN: 0140386351
Label: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: March 01, 1998
Publisher: Puffin
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Puffin
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Editorial Review:
Nhamo's mother is dead, and her father is gone. She is a virtual slave in her small African village. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo learns that she must marry a cruel man with three other wives--and decides desperately to run away. Alone on the river, in a stolen boat, she is swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake. There, she battles drowning, starvation, and wild animals, and comes to know Africa's mystical, luminous spirits. Nancy Farmer's masterful storytelling makes this a truly spellbinding novel--and readers will be cheering for Nhamo from beginning to end. A gripping adventure, equally a survival story and a spiritual voyage.Nhamo is a stunning creation--while she serves as a fictional ambassador from a foreign culture, she is supremely human. An unforgettable work. --Publishers Weekly, starred review
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent Book
This book started a bit slow but by the end it was just speeding along. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to anyone interested in Africa, a true adventure or just a bit of light reading.
Rating: - EXCELLENT!
I just love this book. I am usually picky about books but there is just something about this book that I love. Moreover, I usually hate any novel that has to do with anything but romance. Still, this books is just so beautifully written that I have read it so many times I lost count.
Rating: - great book
A Girl Named Disaster was a very good book. In fact it is a Newberry Award Winner. It lets you travel to Africa without leaving home. The book is about a secret murder and a forced marriage, causing a young girl to flee to Zimbabwe. What should have been a short trip turns into a long journey with many challenges. By using the spirits of her elders the young girl finds her way. I liked this book because of the facts brought into the story through writing. Also I became very attached to the characters ... Read More
Rating: - An Unforgettable Journey
On the face of it, the story is simple: a 12-year old girl named Nhamo, who has spent much of her life feeling unloved, is suddenly cast out of her rural African village and forced to survive alone in the wild. Of course, what should be a two day trip up Mozambique's Musengezi River to the Zimbabwe border takes a year, as Nhamo becomes lost and soon encounters wild animals, mysterious islands, and battles sickness and starvation.
The complexity of the story lies in the development of Nhamo's ... Read More
Rating: - A Girl Named Disaster
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer, Puffin Publishing co.
"The journey will be the hardest thing you'll ever do, but it will be worth it", her grandmother said. When a Shona girl named Nhamo is forced into an arranged marriage to save her village in Southern Africa, her grandmother thinks the opposite. Grandmother tells her to runaway from Mozambique to Zimbabwe, to find her father and be safe. After going countless days all alone on a lake she comes across an inhabited island with baboons. ... Read More
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