01265cam a2200289 4500 280919594 TxAuBib 20160101120000.0 091228s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009048857 9780547251271 0547251270 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Park, Linda Sue. A long walk to water : based on a true story / a novel by Linda Sue Park. Boston : Clarion Books, 2010. 121 p. : col. 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. 20160101. Dut, Salva 1974- Juvenile fiction. Dut, Salva 1974- Fiction. Refugees Fiction. Survival Fiction. Water supply Fiction. Blacks Sudan Fiction. Sudan History Civil War, 1983-2005 Fiction.