A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park


Full Book Name: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Author Name: Linda Sue Park
Book Genre: Africa, Childrens, Cultural, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult
Date of Publication: 2010-11-15
PDF File Name: A_Long_Walk_to_Water_-_Linda_Sue_Park.pdf
PDF File Size: 844 KB

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.