A long walk to water : based on a true story
Title
:
A long walk to water : based on a true story
Personal Author EPSB
:
Linda Sue, Park
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.
Year Published
:
2010
Physical Description
:
122 pages : map ; 22 cm
122 pages : map ; 20 cm
Personal Subject
:
Dut, Salva, 1974--Fiction.
Subject
:
Refugees -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Water -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Sudan -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction.
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.
ISBN
:
9780547251271
9780547577319
9780325075969
Publisher
:
New York, NY : Clarion Books, [2010]
Boston : Sandpiper, [2010]
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2010]
©2010
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Johnny Bright | NS F PAR | Literature/novel study | 31455000245836 | Literature Studies |
| Johnny Bright | NS F PAR | Literature/novel study | 31455000245828 | Literature Studies |
| Johnny Bright | NS F PAR | Literature/novel study | 31455000245810 | Literature Studies |
| Johnny Bright | NS F PAR | Literature/novel study | 31455000245802 | Literature Studies |
| Johnny Bright | NS F PAR | Literature/novel study | 31455000245794 | Literature Studies |
| Johnny Bright | NS F PAR | Literature/novel study | 31455000245786 | Literature Studies |