Full name: A Long Walk to Water: A Novel

Author: Linda Sue Park Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Young adult, War/Military, Children Culture: Africa Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Barns&Noble Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780547251271 9780547577319 0547251270 0547577311

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. Similar books: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park Broken Memory by Elisabeth Combres Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig Pennies For Hitler by Jackie French Bull Run by Paul Fleischman Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen Good Night, Maman by Norma Fox Mazer A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Daniel's Story by Carol Matas The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry The River Between Us by Richard Peck Here Today by Ann M. Martin