Park, Linda Sue
Long walk to water a novel A long walk to water Linda Sue Park. - Boston Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011 - 121 p. map ; 20 cm.
"Based on a true story"--T.-p.
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 a 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.
720L
9780547577319 (pbk.) 0547577311 (pbk.)
Dut, Salva 1974-
Refugees
Survival
Water
Blacks--Sudan
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005
Sudan--History
jPar 17
Long walk to water a novel A long walk to water Linda Sue Park. - Boston Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011 - 121 p. map ; 20 cm.
"Based on a true story"--T.-p.
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 a 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.
720L
9780547577319 (pbk.) 0547577311 (pbk.)
Dut, Salva 1974-
Refugees
Survival
Water
Blacks--Sudan
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005
Sudan--History
jPar 17