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Author:

Park, Linda Sue, author.

Title:

A long walk to water : based on a true story / Linda Sue Park.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

223 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm

Subject:

Dut, Salva,--1974---Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Water-supply--Juvenile fiction.
Blacks--Sudan--Juvenile fiction.
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Juvenile fiction.
Children and war--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Sudan--Juvenile fiction.
South Sudan--Juvenile fiction.
Dut, Salva,--1974-
Blacks.
Children and war.
Orphans.
Refugees.
Survival.
Water-supply.
South Sudan.
Sudan.
Large type books.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
War fiction.
War fiction.

Notes:

Includes "A message from Salva Dut, Rochester, New York, 2010" and "Author's note."

Summary:

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.

Series:

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

ISBN:

1432875914
9781432875916

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1141865693

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)