A Girl Named Disaster
Language: English
Adventure Africa Childrens Coming Of Age Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Middle Grade Survival Young Adult
Published: Jan 2, 1996
Language: English
Adventure Africa Childrens Coming Of Age Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Middle Grade Survival Young Adult
Published: Jan 2, 1996
Description:
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.