A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
This Newbery Honor book by award-winning, bestselling author Nancy Farmer is being reissued in paperback!Eleven-year-old Nhamo lives in a traditional village in Mozambique, where she doesn't quite fit in. When her family tries to force her into marrying a cruel man, she runs away to Zimbabwe, hoping to find the father she's never met. But what should have been a short boat trip across the border turns into a dangerous year-long adventure, and Nhamo must summon her innermost courage to ensure her survival.
Nancy Farmer Es autora de nueve novelas, entre ellas: The Ear, The Eye and The Arm y A Girl Named Disaster, cada una merecedora de una mencion honorifica del premio Newberry; El estigma del alacran, ganadora del National Book Award, asi como de mencion honorifica de los premios Newberry y Michael L. Printz y El Patron del Opio la secuela a El estigma del alacran. Para los lectores un poco mas jovenes escribio una trilogia inspirada en la mitologia nordica: The Sea of Trolls, The Land of the Silver Apples y The Islands of the Blessed. Nancy Farmer crecio en la frontera entre Arizona y Mexico en el paisaje que tanto evoca en esta novela. Vive con su esposo en un pequeno pueblo llamado Portal, en Arizona, uno de los escenarios de la novela.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780545356626 |
| ISBN 10 | 0545356628 |
| Title | A Girl Named Disaster |
| Author | Nancy Farmer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| Year published | 2012-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |