A long walk to water : based on a true story
(2010)
By:
Park, Linda Sue
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
ESL/FICTION/PARK,L
TEEN/FICTION/PARK,L
Y/FICTION/PARK,L
TEEN/FICTION/PARK,L
Y/FICTION/PARK,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Clarion Books, 2010
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
121 pages : map ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780547251271 (hc), 0547251270 (hc), 9780547577319 (pbk.), 0547577311 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Also published: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]. 122 pages : map ; 20 cm
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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