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A Long Walk To Water
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
A Long Walk To Water
Ginger Knowlton, Linda Sue Park
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins 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.
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  • Historical Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
A Long Walk To Water review by EBoe_RPEMS
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In A Long Walk To Water By: Linda Sue Park, Salva is a young boy when he is forced to walk from his home in Southern Sudan all the way to Ethiopia then to Kenya. As a result of a raging civil war, Salva finds himself in the midst of many dangers as he tries to find his family and safety. Facing many fears, Salva is alone, still clinging to the hope that his family is still alive. Salve isnt the only character in the book that suffers great hardship. Nya lives in a small village in Southern Sudan. She has to walk all day to get to a lake for water most of the year.

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