TY - BOOK AU - Park,Linda Sue TI - A long walk to water: based on a true story SN - 9780547251271 AV - PZ7.P22115 Lo 2010 U1 - [Fic] 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Boston PB - Clarion Books KW - Dut, Salva, KW - Water for South Sudan, Inc KW - Refugees KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Survival KW - Water-supply KW - Blacks KW - Sudan KW - Children and war KW - War stories KW - Orphans KW - Lost Boys of Sudan KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Survival skills KW - Water KW - History KW - Civil War, 1983-2005 KW - South Sudan KW - Dust jackets (Bindings) KW - 2010 KW - rbbin KW - Authors' autographs (Provenance) KW - Park KW - rbprov N1 - Includes "A message from Salva Dut, Rochester, New York, 2010" and "Author's note."; Grades 6 & up; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.0; 3.0; 140710 N2 - 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 ER -