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A Long Walk to Water : Based on a True Story by Park, Linda Sue is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Long Walk to Water : Based on a True Story about?
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan 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.From School Library JournalGr 5-8–Salva and Nya have difficult paths to walk in life. Salva's journey, based on a true story, begins in 1985 with an explosion. The boy's small village in Sudan erupts into chaos while the 11-year-old is in school, and the teacher tells the children to run away. Salva leaves his family and all that is familiar and begins to walk. Sometimes he walks alone and sometimes there are others. They are walking toward a refugee camp in Ethiopia, toward perceived safety. However, the camp provides only temporary shelter from the vio
Who reads A Long Walk to Water : Based on a True Story?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Park, Linda Sue
- Publisher
- Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780547251271
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult
- Rating
- 4.23 / 5 (23,522 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- A Long Walk to Water : Based on a True Story (2011)
- Una larga travesía hasta el agua : Basada en una historia real (A Long Walk to Water Spanish edition) (2020)
- A Long Walk to Water : Based on a True Story (2009)
- A Long Walk to Water : Based on a True Story (2020)
- Una larga travesía hasta el agua : Basada en una historia real (A Long Walk to Water Spanish edition) (2023)
- Long Walk To Water: Based on a True Story (2010)
- Xun shui zhi xin = A long walk to water , 尋水之心 = A long walk to water (2016)