A long walk to water : based on a true story

A long walk to water : based on a true story

Author: 
Park, Linda Sue
Place: 
Boston
Publisher: 
Clarion Books
Phys descriptions: 
121p. : map ; 22 cm.
Date published: 
2010
Record type: 
Book/Monograph
Subject: 
REFUGEES
JUVENILE FICTION.
FICTION.
ISBN: 
978-0-547-57731-9
Call No: 
82-3 PAR
Abstract: 

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.

Language: 
English

CITATION: Park, Linda Sue. A long walk to water : based on a true story . Boston : Clarion Books , 2010. - Available at: https://library.au.int/long-walk-water-based-true-story-3