Book
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
A long walk to water : a novel
Call Number
- J PARK (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
New York : Clarion Books, 2010.
Physical Description
121 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Audience
010 up.
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.
Notes
"Based on a true story."
Subjects
- Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
- Survival > Juvenile literature
- Water > Juvenile fiction.
- Black people > Sudan > Juvenile fiction
- Refugees > Fiction.
- Survival > Fiction.
- Water > Fiction.
- Black people > Sudan > Fiction
- Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Juvenile fiction.
- Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Fiction.
- Dut, Salva, 1974- > Juvenile fiction.
- Dut, Salva, 1974- > Fiction.