A long walk to water : a novel : based on a true story /
Park, Linda Sue.
A long walk to water : a novel : based on a true story / by Linda Sue Park. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. - 121 p. : 20 cm.
Book Links (A.L.A.) Booklist starred School Library Journal starred Book Links (A.L.A.), October 2010 Booklist starred, September 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2010 Horn Book, January 2011 Kirkus Review, October 2010 Library Media Connection starred, January 2011 Pub Weekly, October 2010 School Library Journal starred, November 2010 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2010
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.
5-8
English.
9780547577319 (pbk.)
Dut, Salva, 1974- --Juvenile fiction.
Dut, Salva, 1974- --Fiction.
Dut, Salva, 1974- --Fiction.
Blacks--Sudan--Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Water--Juvenile fiction.
Blacks--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Water--Fiction.
Blacks--Sudan--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Survival skills--Fiction.
Water--Fiction.
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Juvenile fiction.
Sudan--Fiction.
Sudan--History--Fiction.
F PAR/O
A long walk to water : a novel : based on a true story / by Linda Sue Park. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. - 121 p. : 20 cm.
Book Links (A.L.A.) Booklist starred School Library Journal starred Book Links (A.L.A.), October 2010 Booklist starred, September 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2010 Horn Book, January 2011 Kirkus Review, October 2010 Library Media Connection starred, January 2011 Pub Weekly, October 2010 School Library Journal starred, November 2010 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2010
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.
5-8
English.
9780547577319 (pbk.)
Dut, Salva, 1974- --Juvenile fiction.
Dut, Salva, 1974- --Fiction.
Dut, Salva, 1974- --Fiction.
Blacks--Sudan--Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Water--Juvenile fiction.
Blacks--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Water--Fiction.
Blacks--Sudan--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Survival skills--Fiction.
Water--Fiction.
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Juvenile fiction.
Sudan--Fiction.
Sudan--History--Fiction.
F PAR/O