Park, Linda Sue      <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> "Based on a true story"--T.-p. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 720L  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780547577319 (pbk.) 0547577311 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Dut, Salva 1974- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Refugees<br/>Survival<br/>Water<br/>Blacks--Sudan
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005<br/>Sudan--History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>jPar   17