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A Girl Named Disaster Farmer, Nancy
by Farmer, Nancy
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Seller
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Orchard Books, 1996-09-01. Hardcover. Good. Good in good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 320 p. Audience: Children/juvenile.
Synopsis
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where a young girl named Nhamo (which means "disaster" in Shona) is told by a shaman that she will have to marry the brother of a man her father murdered, to rid her village of an epidemic of cholera. The brother of Gore Mtoko is said to be a middle-aged and evil man who is already married. Nhamo is instructed by her ill grandmother to run away and find her father in Zimbabwe.
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- Bookseller
- hooksbooknook (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0006970
- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster Farmer, Nancy
- Author
- Farmer, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Publisher
- Orchard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996-09-01
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- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...