01314cam a2200313 4500 514206122 TxAuBib 20210927120000.0 091228s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009048857 9780547251271 hc 0547251270 hc 9780547577319 paper 0547577311 paper (OCoLC)495597182 TxAuBib Park, Linda Sue. A long walk to water [PB] : a novel based on a true story / by Linda Sue Park. New York : Clarion Books, 2009. 121 p. : map ; 22 cm. 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. 20210927. Dut, Salva, 1974- Fiction. Refugees Fiction. Survival Fiction. Water Fiction. Blacks Sudan Fiction. Sudan History Civil War, 1983-2005 Fiction.