Park, Linda Sue. <br/><br/>
A long walk to water :  a novel : based on a true story / 
by Linda Sue Park. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,  c2010. 
 - 121 p. :  maps ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Sandpiper." 
<br/><br/> Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011  School Library Journal starred, November 2010  Book Links (A.L.A.), October 2010  Booklist starred, September 2010  Library Media Connection starred, January 2011  Pub Weekly, October 2010  Horn Book, January 2011  Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2010  Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2010  Kirkus Review, October 2010 
<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 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/> 5.0.  5-8  Follett Library Resources. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0547577311 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Dut, Salva, 1974- --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Refugees--Fiction.<br/>Survival skills--Fiction.<br/>Water--Fiction.<br/>Blacks--Sudan--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sudan--History--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.P22115  / Lo 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]