The New York Times bestseller A 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 10/04/2011
ISBN: 9780547577319
Pages: 121
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.40d
Award: Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award - Nominee
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 140710 / Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 3