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A Long Walk to Water : a Novel : Based on A True Story

Author: Park, Linda Sue

Follett Number: 0271LR8
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
Availability: Publisher out of stock indefinitely
Format: 121 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Subjects:
Black People Fiction
Dut, Salva, 1974- Fiction
Refugees Fiction
Sudan Fiction
Survival Fiction
Water Fiction
"Sandpiper." 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.

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