A girl named Disaster

By Nancy Farmer

Subjects: Adventure fiction, award:Newbery_award, Zimbabwe -- Fiction, Supernatural, fiction, Adventure stories, Supernatural -- Fiction, Wilderness survival, Africa -- Fiction, Supernatural, Shona (African people) -- Juvenile fiction, Paranormal fiction, 1000blackgirlbooks, Survival, Mozambique -- Fiction, Fiction, Shona (African people) -- Fiction, Children's fiction, Zimbabwe, fiction, Social life and customs, Newbery Honor, Survival -- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Shona (African people)

Description: 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.