num_pages: 32
description: Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life an American family adopts Alemitu. She becomes Eva in her new home in America and although her life there is better in so many ways she'll never forget her homeland and the mother who gave up so much for her. Told through the lens that water connects all people everywhere this eye-opening emotional story will get readers thinking about the world beyond their own.
language: English
title: A Thirst for Home: A Story of Water across the World
publisher: Walker Childrens