by Nancy Farmer · Orchard · tapa dura · ISBN 9780439542517
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«A Girl Named Disaster» is Nancy Farmer's young adult adventure novel, published by Orchard in hardback (320 pages, in English).
Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, flees a forced marriage in Mozambique and crosses into Zimbabwe in search of her father. What was meant to be a short boat trip becomes a year of survival in the wild, amid hunger and danger, as she discovers her own strength and draws closer to the African spiritual world.
Part of the Orchard Classics collection. Winner of the Newbery Honor Book in 1997 and finalist for the National Book Award in 1996.
A read aimed at young adult audiences, especially for those seeking adventure and survival stories set in Africa.
Nancy Farmer is an American writer of children's and young adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor books and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2002.
