Nancy Farmer
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.83 | 4434 Users | 505 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A Girl Named Disaster |
| ISBN: | 0439471443 (ISBN13: 9780439471442) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Zimbabwe Mozambique |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (1997), California Book Award for Juvenile (Silver) (1996), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (1996) |
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Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from Zimbabwe to Mozambique. Alone on the river in a stolen boat, swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake, she battles drowning, starvation, wild animals.Orchard collectible editions have new designs, author prefaces and discussion guides.
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| Title | : | A Girl Named Disaster |
| Author | : | Nancy Farmer |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 2003 by Orchard (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Adventure. Survival |
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This isn't my favorite book I've read. It was really long, and I had a hard time getting into it; in fact, I don't think I ever just fell into the book like I do with others. A Girl Named Disaster tells the story of Nhamo, an African girl who lives in a village with her family. Taking place when some of Africalike Zimbabweis Westernized, Nhamo undergoes a journey of escape, survival, and self-discovery. She leaves her village to escape an arranged marriage mandated by the spirits, and spendsA Girl Named Disaster, Nancy FarmerA Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. The book explores the qualities needed to survive in a hostile environment (particularly by a woman), coming-of-age and the availability of spiritual guidance. Nhamo is an 11-year-old girl living in a traditional Shona village located in Mozambique around 1981. She was raised with the knowledge and customs of her tribe. Nhamo means "disaster" in the Shona language. Nhamo was given this name because of the
I started reading this book with the whole English class. At first I was totally into this book, and i couldn't stop reading and went straight through chapter 18. While reading till the mid part of the book, suddenly I felt really bored with the story, it's not that i didn't like it... it's just that it was pretty boring with her just staying on an island and got stranded over and over. There was also some pretty disgusting things that were in the book that is supposed to be read by girls,
i personally hated this book. although i read it with a class i truely hated it. i think even if i read it by myself i still would not have liked it. its not that the writing is bad its just that it goes on forever and you just get tired of it.
This book is ANYTHING but torture!Nancy Farmer has really outdid herself this time! This book truly represents the rights that all children possess since birth to have family, to have freedom, to have justice.Nhamo, forced to courtship with a man she barely knows, flees her village in a stolen boat on a voyage to freedom. And with the assistance of her mother's spirit, a dead man and two water spirits, Nhamo doesn't have to face it all alone. With her courage, nature, spirit (and spirits) and
"I am she who lifts mountains When she goes to hunt Who wears a mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great." Nhamo, "A Girl Named Disaster", P. 101 "(P)eople are like plants. Some shoot up like weeds, and some are slow like fruit trees. In the end, the fruit trees are worth more." Ambuya, "A Girl Named Disaster, P. 21 I would give three and a half stars to "A
A Girl Named Disaster, Nancy FarmerA Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. The book explores the qualities needed to survive in a hostile environment (particularly by a woman), coming-of-age and the availability of spiritual guidance. Nhamo is an 11-year-old girl living in a traditional Shona village located in Mozambique around 1981. She was raised with the knowledge and customs of her tribe. Nhamo means "disaster" in the Shona language. Nhamo was given this name because of the
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