| Author | Nancy Farmer |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Orchard Books |
| Publication date | September 1996 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0531095398 (first edition, hardback) |
A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where a young girl named Nhamo (which means "Disaster") is told she will have to marry Gore Mtoko,a middle-aged and evil man. She runs away to find her father who works in the distant Mtoroshanga Chrome mines. Along the way she experiences constant isolation and encounters baboons, a leopard, njuzu (which is a kind of spirit) and landmines. Nhamo triumphs over all these obstacles. Farmer won the Newbery Honor for the book in 1997.
