A long walk to water : based on a true story
- Boston Clarion Books 2009
- 121 p. col. map ; 19,5/13,5/0,8 cm Paperback
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.
9780547577319
2009048857
Dut, Salva 1974- --Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Fiction. Survival--Fiction. Water supply--Fiction. Black people--Sudan--Fiction.