01182cam a2200241 4500 105317703 TxAuBib 20120609120000.0 110102s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780547577319 pbk 0547577311 pbk AU@ eng AU@ NLK TxAuBib Park, Linda Sue. A long walk to water : a novel / by Linda Sue Park. Boston : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 121 p. : map ; 20 cm. "Based on a true story"--T.-p. 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 a 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. 20120611. Dut, Salva, 1974?- Young adult fiction. Africa Young adult fiction. Sudan History Civil War, 1983-2005 Young adult fiction.