Newbery Honor Books

The runner ups for each year for the prestigious Newbery Medal award.

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1. A girl named disaster

Author:

Farmer, Nancy, 1941-

East Regional - Young Adult

YA FARMER

Northeast Regional - Young Adult

YA FARMER

Pub. Date	Publisher	Physical Desc.	Availability
1998	Puffin Books	309 pages : map ; 20 cm	On Shelf East Regional - Young Adult YA FARMER Northeast Regional - Young Adult YA FARMER	More Info

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.