A long walk to water / a novel by Linda Sue Park.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 121 pages : color map ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780547577319; 0547577311Subject(s): Dut, Salva, 1974- -- Juvenile fiction | Dut, Salva, 1974- -- Fiction | Dut, Salva, 1974- -- Fiction | Water for South Sudan, Inc | Refugees -- Juvenile fiction | Survival -- Juvenile fiction | Water-supply -- Juvenile fiction | Blacks -- Sudan -- Juvenile fiction | Children and war -- Juvenile fiction | War stories -- Juvenile fiction | Orphans -- Juvenile fiction | Lost Boys of Sudan -- Juvenile fiction | Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Juvenile fiction | Sudan -- Juvenile fiction | South Sudan -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Authors' autographs (Provenance) -- Park -- 2010. | War fiction. | Biographical fiction. Awards: Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011 | Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2011Summary: 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.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | YA PARK (Browse shelf) | Available | 49161 |
"Based on a true story."
Includes "A message from Salva Dut, Rochester, New York, 2010", and "Author's note" with "Addendum, 2015."
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.
Grades 6 & up.
720L Lexile
Accelerated Reader AR. MG 5.0 3.0 140710.
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5 3 140710.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011
Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2011
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