A long walk to water : based on a true story

Type

Book

Authors

Park, Linda Sue.

ISBN 13

9780547251271

Tags

Blacks, Sudan, Survival, Dut, Salva, Water supply, Juvenile fiction, Refugees, fiction, History

Description

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.

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