02895cam a2200325 4500 1168067107 TxAuBib 20240311120000.0 091228s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009048857 9780547251271 0547251270 TxAuBib Park, Linda Sue. A Long Walk To Water : Based On A True Story / a novel by Linda Sue Park. Boston : Clarion Books, 2010. 121 p. : col. map ; 22 cm. 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. A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan 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. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Park, Linda Sue AR Quiz No. 140710 EN Eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family when the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, and he must endure a difficult journey in search of a safe haven. The plot contains violence. AR Quiz Availability: Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice ATOS Book Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up) AR Points: 3.0 Word Count: 21221 Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction Topic - Subtopic: Adventure-Survival; Award Winners-Jane Addams Book Award Finalist/Winner B; Countries/Regions-Sudan; Recommended Reading-Junior Library Guild-2011 Winter Jr./Sr. High; Recommended Reading-Junior Library Guild Selection; What Kids Are Reading, 2020-Grade 7: Top 20 Fiction/Nonfiction Books; What Kids Are Reading, 2021-Grade 7: Top 20 Fiction/Nonfiction Books; What Kids Are Reading, 2022-Grade 7: Top 20 Fiction/Nonfiction Books;. 20240311. Dut, Salva, 1974- Juvenile fiction. Dut, Salva, 1974- Fiction. Refugees Fiction. Survival Fiction. Water supply Fiction. Black people Sudan Fiction. Sudan History Civil War, 1983-2005 Fiction. TXMIT