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A long walk to water based on a true story
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (121 p.) : col. map.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Boston : Clarion Books, 2010.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | 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: | Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011 |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Dut, Salva 1974- Juvenile fiction Dut, Salva 1974- Fiction Refugees Fiction Survival Fiction Water Fiction Blacks Sudan Fiction Sudan History Civil War, 1983-2005 Fiction |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
