Park, Linda Sue.

A long walk to water [electronic resource] a novel by Linda Sue Park. - Boston : Clarion Books, 2010. - 1 online resource (121 p.) : col. map ;

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

9780547251271 978-0-547-53284-4 (electronic bk.)

2009048857


Dut, Salva, 1974- --Juvenile fiction.


Refugees--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Water--Fiction.
Blacks--Sudan--Fiction.


Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Fiction.


Electronic books.

PZ7.P22115 / Lo 2010

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