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

Park, Linda Sue. (Author).

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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  • ISBN: 9780547532844 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0547532849 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (121 p.) : col. map.
  • Publisher: Boston : Clarion Books, 2010.

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Awards Note:
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: 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.
Genre: Electronic books.

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