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Author:

Park, Linda Sue.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

121 p. : maps ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Dut, Salva,--1974---Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Water--Juvenile fiction.
Blacks--Sudan--Juvenile fiction.
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Juvenile fiction.
Dut, Salva,--1974---Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Water--Fiction.
Blacks--Fiction.
Sudan--Fiction.

Notes:

"Sandpiper."

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.

Indexed by:

School Library Journal starred, November 2010
Book Links (A.L.A.), October 2010
Booklist starred, September 2010
Library Media Connection starred, January 2011
Pub Weekly, October 2010
Horn Book, January 2011
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2010
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2010
Kirkus Review, October 2010

ISBN:

0329878050
9780329878054 (Follett bdg.)
9780547577319 (pbk.)
0547577311

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