A girl named disaster

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Author:
Farmer, Nancy
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English
Lexile measure:
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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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Action and adventure fiction
Africa -- Juvenile fiction
Electronic books
Electronic books. -- Fiction
Fiction
Juvenile fiction
Juvenile fiction -- Fiction
Mozambique -- Juvenile fiction
Paranormal fiction
Runaways
Runaways -- Fiction
Shona (African people)
Shona (African people) -- Juvenile fiction
Survival
Survival -- Fiction
Survival -- Juvenile fiction
Themes
Themes -- Fiction
Zimbabwe -- Juvenile fiction

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Contributors:
Lecat, Lisette,reader
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ISBN:
9780140386356
9781490673530
9780545229784
9780613078634
9780531095393
9780531088890
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.1, 14 Points
Lexile measure:
730L

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Last Grouping Update2025-08-12 19:31:29PM
Last Indexed2025-08-18 22:22:48PM

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