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A long walk to water : a novel

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2010

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Format:	Book
Author:	Park, Linda Sue.
Title:	A long walk to water : a novel / by Linda Sue Park.
Publisher, Date:	Boston [Mass.] : Clarion Books, 2010.
Description:	121 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Publication Year:	2010
Summary:	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.
Target Audience Note:	10-12. 5-7. 720 Lexile.
Subjects:	Dut, Salva, 1974- -- Juvenile fiction. Dut, Salva, 1974- -- Fiction. Refugees -- Juvenile fiction. Survival skills -- Juvenile fiction. Water -- Juvenile fiction. Blacks -- Sudan -- Juvenile fiction. Refugees -- Fiction. Survival -- Fiction. Water -- Fiction. Blacks -- Sudan -- Fiction. Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Juvenile fiction. Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction.
Notes:	"Based on a true story." Booklist, 090110, p. 97 Kirkus Review - Adult,101510 Publisher's Weekly,101810 School Library Journal, 110110, p. 123 Horn Book Magazine, 010111, p. 98 Hornbook Guide to Children, 010111, p. 79 Wilson Junior High Catalog, 010111, p. 201 Wilson Senior High Catalog, 010111, p. 1028 Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 5.0 3.0 140710.
LCCN:	2009048857
ISBN:	0547251270 9780547251271 (hbk.)
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	1919426

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