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A long walk to water : a novel / by Linda Sue Park. |
| Authors: | Park, Linda Sue. |
| Call number: | jFIC PAR |
| Publisher: | New York : Clarion Books, 2010. |
| Publication date: | 2010. |
| Subject: |
Refugees -- Juvenile fiction.
Survival skills -- Juvenile fiction. Water -- Juvenile fiction. Blacks -- Sudan -- Juvenile fiction. Dut, Salva, 1974- -- Juvenile fiction. Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Title: | A long walk to water : a novel / by Linda Sue Park. |
| Physical description: | 121 p. : map ; 22 cm. |
| Target audience note: | 010 up. |
| Notes: | "Based on a true story." |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Awards note: | Young Hoosier Book Award, 2012-2013, 6-8 Nominee. |
| ISBN: | 9780547251271 (hc) 0547251270 (hc) |
| LCCN: | 2009048857 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1274667 |
| Bib No.: | 1274667 |