Park, Linda Sue.

A long walk to water : a novel / by Linda Sue Park. - Boston : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2010. - 121 p. : map ; 20 cm.

"Based on a true story" -- Cover.

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 a 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.

ISBN: 9780547577319 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Refugees
Survival
Water
Blacks

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]