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A long walk to water

Park, Linda Sue (Author).

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.

Book  - 2010
J FIC Park
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Subject
Dut, Salva, 1974- > Juvenile fiction.
Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
Survival > Juvenile fiction.
Water > Juvenile fiction.
Black people > Sudan > Juvenile fiction.
Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Juvenile fiction.
Genre
Fiction.
  • ISBN: 0547251270
  • ISBN: 9780547251271
  • Physical Description print
    121 pages cm
  • Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

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General Note:
"Based on a true story".
Map on p. opp. t.p.
"Clarion Books".
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 19.95

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