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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

by Linda Sue Park
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based on 966 ratings

About this book

TheNew York Times bestsellerA Long Walk to Waterbegins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780547577319
ISBN10 0547577311
Series/Work OL17113467W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages 121
Language EN
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At April 18, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Africa, east, fiction Africa, fiction Blacks Blacks, fiction Children and war Children's fiction Civil War (Sudan : 1983- ) fast (OCoLC)fst01352323 Fiction History Juvenile fiction New York Times bestseller nyt:childrens-middle-grade=2013-07-28 nyt:childrens-middle-grade-e-book=2016-04-10 Orphans Refugees Refugees, fiction Survival Survival, fiction Survival skills War stories

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