TY  - BOOK
AU  - Park,Linda Sue
TI  - A long walk to water: a novel : based on a true story 
SN  - 0547577311
AV  - PZ7.P22115 Lo 2010
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Dut, Salva,
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Fiction
KW  - sears
KW  - Survival skills
KW  - Water
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Sudan
KW  - History
N1  - "Sandpiper."; 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; 5.0; 5-8; Follett Library Resources; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.0; 3.0; 140710
N2  - 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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