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 | 9780140386356 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140386351 |
| Title | A Girl Named Disaster |
| Author | Nancy Farmer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Puffin |
| Year published | 1998-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2000 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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