A Long Walk to Water

Linda Sue Park – Based on a true story, this book alternates between a boy living in war-torn Sudan and 23 years later, a girl also living in that country. Salva lives in refugee camps and later moves to America when war separates him from his family. Nya has to walk 8 hours, round trip, to get some dirty pond water until someone, Salva, starts the project of drilling wells for Nya’s village.R:VL