A girl named Disaster
About this book
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.
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure fiction
- adventure stories
- africa -- fiction
- award:newbery_award
- children's fiction
- fiction
- juvenile fiction
- mozambique -- fiction
- newbery honor
- paranormal fiction
- shona (african people)
- shona (african people) -- fiction
- shona (african people) -- juvenile fiction
- social life and customs
- supernatural
- supernatural -- fiction
- supernatural, fiction
- survival
- survival -- fiction
- wilderness survival
- zimbabwe -- fiction
- zimbabwe, fiction