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A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Seller
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San Diego, California, United States
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About This Item
Orchard, 1996-09-01. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Newberry Honor Book. No medal on jacket. As New. DJ protected in new archival mylar sleeve. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- The Prince and Pauper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102038
- Title
- A Girl Named Disaster
- Author
- Nancy Farmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0531095398
- ISBN 13
- 9780531095393
- Publisher
- Orchard
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996-09-01
- X weight
- 16 oz
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