A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard Classics)
 

A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard Classics)

by Nancy Farmer

A GIRL NAMED DISASTER is the humorous and heart-wrenching story of young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional village in Mozambique in 1981. When her family tries to force her into a marriage with a cruel man, she flees. What was supposed to have been a short boat trip... (read more)

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AspiringAuthor
  • Rated 5 stars

Disaster is used to being disliked by everyone except her grandmother. Her beautiful and loving mother fell in love with a rogue who married her, but then left and never returned. Then, when Disaster was little, a jaguar walked into their hut and ate her mother, but spared her life. Because her grandmother preferred Disaster's mother over her sister, her aunt hates her. Her cousin is sweet but rather boring as she obeys her mother's every order. Then, to make matters worse, her roguish father...

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Origional Bibliophile
  • Rated 2 stars

Maybe it's my European-style upbringing, but I just didn't like this book. It didn't ever grab my interest and I remember next to nothing about its content.

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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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