A Girl Named Disaster

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Summary: A Girl Named Disaster
Review: A Girl Named Disaster is a fantastic and exciting novel that takes place in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. We enjoyed this book because it's adventurous, has a lot of action going on and has different cultural beliefs. Nhamo, the main character spends a lot of time doing her chores. When she is finished with her chores she goes and talks to her grandmother or the picture of what she thinks is her mother. The Mavuki the witch smeller) tells her that she has to marry and old diseased guy with three wives. If she doesn't, her village will be cursed. Nhamo runs away to find her long lost father in Zimbabwe. She goes in a boat and floats down the river. If you are looking for a long interesting book, read A Girl Named Disaster.

By a group of fifth and sixth graders

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Summary: A Girl Named Disaster is a highly recommended book.
Review: A Girl Named Disaster is a highly good tremendously recommended book. It has adventure,sadness,joyfullness,spirituality,and almost everything you would want to read about! If you are intrested in hearing about some of the plot,listen up! The main character in this book is Nhamo.She lives in a small village.She works every day in her village doing chores and working almost non stop.When Nhamo sees everyone has been getting sick in her village she and some other villagers go to a Muvoki. Nhamo's aunt hates her. Nhamo's aunt,in a horrible dishonest way, makes Nhamo go live with her own drug and alcohol addicted uncle with about three wives! Nhamo does not want to go off and marry him.So she bravely and couragously sets out on an adventure to find Zimbabwe. Nhamo faces starvation, wild and untamed animals,spirits,and killing animals and having to eat them.Nhamo is an amazing young gal. I highly recommend this book to you!

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Summary: Greatest Book Ever
Review: This book about a girl named Nhamo, begins where Nhamo has to struggle for her village. She does all the chores for her family. She is always yelled at and pushed around by Aunt Chipo. One day, a terrible disease strikes her village and many people die. Even her cousin gets sick! Luckily, her cousin survives. Her family goes to a doctor and he sets her ambuya or grandmother into a stroke because she insulted him. Nhamo is acused of being the cause of this. An angry spirit, killed by her father, killed her mother when she was a baby, and now he wants her spirit! Her ambuya, tells her to go to Zimbabwe and find her father there. She goes on an adventure you CAN'T forget!

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Summary: A Good Book
Review: A Girl Named Disaster was a book filled with adventure. Nhamo, a young, strong, brave girl living in Mozambique,forced to marry a cruel man sets off on a journey of adventure and life. Through her journey, she tries to survive the rivers, animals, and spirits. I think that the book was pretty good. I loved the stories she told and the way she told them. She tells the stories to get through the pain she goes through. If you like adventures read A Girl Named Disaster.

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Summary: This Book was the Best Book I Ever read in My Life!
Review: This book was very good! I loved it! Nacy Farmer did a wonderful job putting so much detail in this book. It captured the African customes at their best. This book takes you into a whole new world filled with imagination.

It's about a girl whose people think she is a witch, all because a deadly disease is speading around her village. The girl's name is Nhamo, meaning disaster. She runs away in a stolen boat she stole from a man named Crocodile Guts. Then she sets sail to find her father in Zimbabwe. But she gets deserted on an island surrounded by baboons. You're going to have to read this book to really understand its meaning. When I read it, I think the best part was when her grandmother told her stories that were so exciting and filled with imagination. This book was truly exciting and riveting. A masterpiece in the making.

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Summary: Not my favorite book
Review: Not my favorite book. This was not one of my favorite books because I am not a big fan of girl against nature stories. Nhamo spent so much time traveling and going around the island when she could have spent that time with her grandmother. Once she was on her own, everything was about her survival and her struggles for food and shelter, against the animals, and finding her way. To me, it would have been a much more interesting story if we got to see her struggles against her cruel husband, his other wives and her mean aunt. I would have liked to see her stay and care for her grandmother and spend time with her while she was near the end of her life. Her struggles and the struggels of her parents and family were so sad even though she survived and came out on top. However, there is a lot of suspense, danger, action and a girl's fight for independence, survival and her family. If this appeals to you, then you will probably love the book. It just wasn't my type, though.

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Summary: a girl named diaster
Review: this book was an exciting book filled with adventure.when i read this book i nearly jumped out of my pants evrey time something would happen. it was the best book i ever read. there should be a sequal.

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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: This is a challenging, exciting book for youth that adults can enjoy too. It is very conplex and the story is so interesting. This is a very different book for youth. It allows the reader to immerse themselves in the character's world even when their own world is so different. I really liked this book. I can't wait to share it with a teenage student from Africa I have.

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Summary: Hmmm...
Review: I have read a girl named disaster twice now. Though I mostly like it, some of the parts are just confusing. For example, she talks to her spirits a lot and they seem to answer her. Are they really there or is she speaking to herself? And why do they disappear for whole parts of the book? Why weren't they there in the beginning? Maybe I just didn't really get it. However, I definately recommend the ear, the eye and the arm by the same author. THAT was good. This book was okay but I didn't like it very much.

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Summary: THIS WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS EVER!!!
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book because it was well written, interesting, and it wasn't short. It has 1 interesting thing right after another so you dont have to sit there half asleep waiting for something cool to happen. This book tells about how a girl who isn't loved by hardly anyone has to run away from her villiage to Zimbabwe. On the way she has to face many hard tasks in order to survive. I DEFINITELY RECOMEND THIS BOOK!!!