A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Author:
Linda Sue Park 
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Publication:
2010 by Clarion Books
Genre:
Biographical Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Pages:
152
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Nya is going to the pond to fetch water for her family—there and back, twice. She walks for eight hours every day.
Salva is walking away from his ruined village to find safety—if there is any safety in his war-torn homeland. His journey across Africa to Ethiopia then to Kenya and beyond will take many years.
Two young people...two stories.
One country: Sudan.
This mesmerizing dual narrative by Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park shows us that in a troubled country, determined survivors may find the future they are hoping for.
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Linda Sue Park
1960 -Korean American
At the end of the Korean War, a nineteen-year-old man and his wife immigrated to the United States of America. Together they would raise a girl who lo... See more
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A Long Walk to Water
Reviewed by Sherry Early
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is subtitled “a novel based on a true story.” The true story is that of a Sudanese boy named Salva Dut who in 1985 was forced to flee his village in Southern Sudan. Salva became separated from his family and his fellow villagers, and he went first to Ethiopia, then to Kenya, in search of refuge and reunification with his family and tribe.
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