A Long Walk To Water
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Plan Lector Colegio Jefferson 2025-1,Grade 5
Contributor(s) : Park, Linda Sue (Author)
From a Newbery Medalist ("A Single Shard") comes a mesmerizing novel based on a true story. "A Long Walk to Water" begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985.
Publisher : Clarion Books
Pub Date : October 04, 2011
ISBN : 9780547577319
Binding : Paperback
BISAC Categories : Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Africa
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the ""lost boys"" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way.
