A Girl Named Disaster

Posted on 21 September 2017 by Nancy Farmer

Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981 Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from Zimbabwe to Mozambique Alone on the river in a stolen boat, swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake, she battles drowning, starvation, wild animals.Orchard collectible editions have new designs, author prefaces and discussion guides. Read A Girl Named Disaster – kino-fada.fr Excellent book I highly recommend this one I think it s a great way to understand a little better the complexities of African beliefs and tribal life It s not a religion to them, it s a way of life believing everything has a spirit, for example.i personally hated this book although i read it with a class i truely hated it i think even if i read it by myself i still would not have liked it its not that the writing is bad its just that it goes on forever and you just get tired of it.I am she who lifts mountains When she goes to hunt Who wears a mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt Beware I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns Let them hear my words Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great Nhamo, A Girl Named Disaster , P 101 P eople are like plants Some shoot up like weeds, and some are slow like fruit trees In the end, the fruit trees are worthAmbuya, A Girl Named Disaster, P 21 I would give three and a half stars to I am she who lifts mountains When she goes to hunt Who wears a mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt Beware I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns Let them hear my words Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great Nhamo, A Girl Named Disaster , P 101 P eople are like plants Some shoot up like weeds, and some are slow like fruit trees In the end, the fruit trees are worthAmbuya, A Girl Named Disaster, P 21 I would give three and a half stars to A Girl Named Disaster There are few authors out there who are capable of writing an engrossing, gri...This took me forever to read I don t know why I guess I wasn t reading 20 minutes everyday Oh well But, it is a really good book Interesting.This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Nancy Farmer s A Girl Named Disaster brings us inside the head of Nhamo, a girl living in a small Mozambique village Her mother had died when she was very young, and her father had disappeared Even though her aunt and uncle took her into their hospitality, it is very clear to Nhamo that she is not wanted there When disease strikes the village and her family is forced to visit the Muvuki, Nhamo is faced with alarming changes Determined to run away to find her father s family, she embarks al Nancy Farmer s A Girl Named Disaster brings us inside the head of Nhamo, a girl living in a small Mozambique village Her mother had died when she was very young, and her father had disappeared Even though her aun...This book is about the young girl Nhamo who leaves her little village in Mozambique in order to find her father s family in Zimbabwe to avoid an impending marriage to a cruel man She gets stuck on an island and is forced to figure out how to survive on her own while also receiving guidance from the spirit world By far my favorite part of this book was its rich depiction of folklore I learned a lot about the beliefs of people from Mozambique and Zimbabwe which I had never even heard of before This book is about the young girl Nhamo who leaves her little village in Mozambique in order to find her father s family in Zimbabwe to avoid an impending marriage to a cruel man She gets stuck on an island and is forced to figure out how to survive on her own while also receiving guidance from the spirit world By far my favorite part of this book was its rich depiction of folklore I learned a lot about the beliefs of people from Mozambique and Zimbabwe which I had never even heard of befo...A Girl Named Disaster, Nancy Farmer 1941 1386 340 9789648564679 9648564671 20 1387 352 9789649602721A Girl Named Disaster is typical young adult lit fare as far as the main components go Absent parents, family members who don t treat Nhamo well, feeling marginalized in all areas of life, etc But she has extraordinary powers that set her apart from her peers What gives this book its richness is its setting Nhamo s family lives in a remote village in Mozambique Nhamo s grandmother advises her to run away when her family plans on giving her in marriage to the brother of a man her father murd A Girl Named Disaster is typical young adult lit fare as far as the main components go Absent parents, family members who don t treat Nhamo well, feeling marginalized in all areas of life, etc But she has extraordinary powers that set her apart from her peers What gives this book its richness is its setting Nhamo s family lives in a remote village in Mozambique Nhamo s grandmother advises her to r...A girl s book boys likely would not relate to the very female nature of this book Nhamo whose name means Disaster lives in the African country of Mozambique in the early 1980s The native religion and customs of the time will be strange to a youth reader today Because the spirits tell her family that she is the cause of a cholera epidemic, they send her to be the fourth wife of a cruel ma...I started reading this book with the whole English class At first I was totally into this book, and i couldn t stop reading and went straight through chapter 18 While reading till the mid part of the book, suddenly I felt really bored with the story, it s not that i didn t like it it s just that it was pretty boring with her just staying on an island and got stranded over and over There was also some pretty disgusting things that were in the book that is supposed to be read by girls, becau I started reading this book with the whole English cla...

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21 September 2017

Nancy Farmer