National Book AwardThe House of the Scorpion
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Book · Young Adult
A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
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About the book
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.
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