01206    a2200169   4500001000700000020001800007020001400025041000800039082001000047100002000057520081000077856002400887040002500911245004100936260003700977300002201014118366  a9780547577319  qpaperback  aeng  a[Fic]  aPark, Linda Sue  aA 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. Includes an afterword by author Linda Sue Park and the real-life Salva Dut, on whom the novel is based, and who went on to found Water for South Sudan.  u000030/00003010.jpg  aBR-BrIDEAcBR-BrIDEA10aA long walk to watercLinda Sye Park  aNew YorkbHoughton Mifflinc2010  a119 p.bmaps ill.