A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

By Linda Sue Park

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Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 6 - 8Grades 3 - 8W521221

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy 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.

Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN-13: 9780547251271
ISBN-10: 0547251270
Published on 11/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128

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This book was AMAZING!

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I can't wait to read this.

Oh my gosh. This book was the saddest thing i have ever read. Its based on a true story and i love those kinds of stories because i can't just be like, i wish i was this CHARACTER. but instead i say, i wish i knew this person. it was super good

I have wanted to read this book. I hope it is interesting to me.

This is a book about a boy who has lost his family did to the war in Sudan Africa. a book about uniting and how the wall to water was a long one. This is a great book based an amazing TRUE LIFE STORY. Any one who reads this book will love it.

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nice story

My favorite charactor is Salva. His story is so intresting. I love it! I would recamend you read this amazing book!

This book is so amazing!!!!!

this book is about people in southern sudan and are really poor it is based on 2 people but one of them is actrual true

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