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A long walk to water : a novel : based on a true story / by Linda Sue Park.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2010.Description: 121 p. : maps ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0547577311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.P22115 Lo 2010
Summary: 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.
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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.

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