TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farmer,Nancy
TI  - A girl named Disaster
SN  - 0140386351
AV  - PZ7.F23814 Gi 1998
U1  - [Fic] 21
PY  - 1998///, c1996
CY  - New York
PB  - Puffin Books
KW  - Shona (African people)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Wilderness survival
KW  - Supernatural
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Adventure fiction
KW  - Mozambique
KW  - Zimbabwe
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-309); Wilson's Children, May 1997; Wilson's Junior High School, August 1997; Elem. School Library Collection, March 1998; School Library Journal starred, October 1996; Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), February 1997; School Library Journal, July 1997; Five Owls, November 1996; Book Links (A.L.A.), April 2003; Horn Book Starred, November 1996; 5.9; 5-8; Follett Library Resources
N2  - 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
ER  -