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Park, Linda Sue.
A Long Walk to Water /
by Linda Sue Park.
Boston :
Clarion Books,
2010.
121 p. :
col. map ;
22 cm.
Based on a true story.
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.
20151027.
Dut, Salva
1974-
Fiction.
Refugees
Fiction.
Survival
Fiction.
Water Supply
Fiction.
African Americans
Sudan
Fiction.
Sudan
History
Civil War, 1983-2005
Fiction.