A long walk to water
Subtitle: based on a true story
By: by Linda Sue Park.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780547251271
Subjects: Dut, Salva, -- 1974?- -- Juvenile fiction; Dut, Salva, -- 1974?- -- Fiction; Refugees -- Fiction; Survival -- Fiction; Water -- Fiction; Blacks -- Sudan -- Fiction; Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: 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.