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Read this with my son, who had to read it for school. It touches on important topics, but it didn't feel like a good fit for 7th grade. I think my son would've gotten more out of it a few years ago. Reading it now, he was annoyed by the writing (lots of short, declarative sentences).

Salva was a young boy in the village tribe of Dinka, the fighting from rebels and government separated Salva from his family and killed many of civilians and people.

Salve, now having to avoid the fighting has to survive and find his way back to his family, in hopes to be reunited through the conditions of war.

This is a Phoenix Award winner. This book follows the story of two different people. One girl Nya and a boy Salva. It follows their families story during war of their villages and the many miles they had to walk to survive on their land. The story follows them for a long time about how each of them survived until they finally cross paths and meet one another.

Can you imagine hiking 2 miles x2/day to reach your only water source (pond)??

#Hike #NovemberNarrative @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Me today:
- complaining because I had to microwave my coffee
- commenting that gas prices dropped a few cents
- brushing my teeth with the faucet on
- video chatting with my husband who is across the country
Sobering thoughts:
- to not drink and die or to drink, get sick from the water and die
- 19 years away from family
- am I leaving a positive impact on my world, a legacy my family would be proud of
Deep, deep middle grade read for ALL AGES!

The hardest story told in the most simple way. Salva has been a refugee for years. He fled from war torn #SouthSudan across the Nile and the desert to Ethiopia and Kenya. He learns to take life a day at a time.
In between there is Nya‘s story, who 20 years later in South Sudan walks 8 hours a day to fetch water.
A touching story!

#ReadingAfrica2022 🇸🇸 #19822022 #2010 #52BooksIn52weeks #MiddleGrade

(Pic: Nizwa, Oman)

This short #MiddleGrade book is told from two perspectives. It doesn‘t describe in detail the violence in Sudan in 1985, but it‘s clearly there in Salva‘s story. Nya‘s story takes place in 2008 as she spends most of her time carrying water for her family. In the end, their two stories come together.

#ReadingAfrica2022 #Sudan #audiobook

I was nervous about getting into audiobooks but I have an hour commute and figured I could reach my reading goals faster if I start. I started with this one because it was short and was recommended by a friend. I‘m picky about readers on audiobooks and this one has two great readers for the two points of view. It‘s a harrowing, beautiful, true story. It heralds the virtue of perseverance and makes you appreciate what you have for sure!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Pop sugar challenge: a book set in the 80s

Intense YA. My niece is reading it in school. ❤️

What an emotional read. Loved it! Everyone should read this book!

I adore this book. A true story of alternating chapters- one following an 11 year old boy from the mid 1980‘s in Sudan‘s civil war to the present, and an 11 year old girl in the mid 2000‘s Sudan. They each take long walks, but for very different reasons. It‘s tragic and heart wrenching but also inspirational and heart warming. YA novel but I recommend for anyone. Here is the link for the non profit discussed ! https://www.waterforsouthsudan.org

What a heart wrenching story. This ia a beautifully written story about hope, war and faith. This had 2 parallel stories which ended up meeting at the end

Our bookstore successfully raised 50 copies of A Long Walk to Water for a local teacher to give away to students for summer reading this year, so I had to check this out! A brief but powerful, harrowing but hopeful read, A Long Walk to Water shares the true story of Salva Dut, a Dinka child and Sudanese Lost Boy in 1985, who grew up to found Water for South Sudan, and the fictional story of Nya, a Nuer girl who benefits from Salva‘s well in 2008.

Loved how the author put the two stories together and concluded in such a heart-warming way. A great quick little read!

This was such a great middle grades book about one of the lost boys from the Sudan Civil War. I highly recommend this powerful read, especially since it can be read in one sitting. #TBRCrew #DecadesOfThePast 1980‘s

This book was such a great read. Read in one sitting. Could not put it down. Get your tissues for this one. You will love it though.
A little about it: The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985....

#greatreads #recommendedreading #readers #booklovers

I meant to read this for #booked2020 #genocide prompt a few months ago (I ended up reading something else instead). Turns out it is the 1st quarter novel study for Maya‘s English class!

Salva reminds me so very much of one of my Lost Boy refugee clients from the early 2000s. I worked with quite a few Sudanese refugees when I was with LIRS and IRC, and I feel the author did a great job portraying their experience for a middle grade audience.

This was a great story but a not so great audiobook. I think I‘ll have to try this again as a physical book. Very powerful, but the audiobook almost didn‘t do it justice.

This short, middle grade true story is an affecting story about genocide, fighting, refugee life, and the importance of water in Sudan. It‘s just the kind of book that reminds kids and adults that life is wholly different in other parts of the world, and that's something we all need every once in a while.

#thebibliophage2020 #irlbookgroup #weneeddiversereads

Reading this with my IRL book group this month. After finishing a 30+ hour audiobook, this short one is a welcome change. Although, it‘s obviously not an easy story.

This is based on the true story of Salva, who at the age of 11 found himself w/out family and walking with a group of strangers from South Sudan to Ethiopia because of the war in Sudan. Eventually he makes his was to the US where he gets an education and decides to help his people by bringing clean water to the villages where people would often have to walk hours for any water at all.
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“Everything about him was paying attention to the teacher-everything except his eyes and his mind.“

I would use this book in my classroom to show my students the diverse cultures and hopefully give them a better understanding of the diversity among cultures so that they know of them.

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story written by Linda Sue Park. Chapter 1 p.1-7. Introduced Salva, who lives in southern Sudan, and talks about how he goes to school rather than working at home. When he is at school one day, a war starts because the people in the south practice a different religion and didn't want to be forced to practice Islam. This could be related to diverse children in today's world because of discrimination.

“A step at a time. One problem at a time-just figure out this one problem”

Love this book!! Would definitely have this in a classroom or suggest it for children to read it!

Reading this book brought me to tears! The realistic fiction story based on a true story. This book is an amazing story about the Lost Boys. I would love to show this to a class because it is so important for children to see what other cultures and children have to go through. This story is inspirational and so moving.

Again my 11-year-old's book recommendation was terrific. ☺️🥰

It was discovered on some little obscure table in the back corner of the bookstore, but I think that I need to treat it like a found lost treasure.
This is what I shall read next!

It was discovered on some little obscure table in the back corner of the bookstore, but I think that I need to treat it like a found lost treasure.
This is what I shall read next!

I wish I could say that I‘m done traveling for the year but I‘m not. Trying to get as much reading done as possible! Diving into this one now! This is a ProjectLit selelction so I know it‘s good!

#Africa #letstraveljuly @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

You came to lift me up
Life is a drink and love's a drug
Oh, now I think I must be miles up
When I was a river dried up
You came to rain a flood🎶
#hymnfortheweekend #julycoldplay

This book really puts things in perspective. I‘m going to have both of my kids read this.

“If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group,. Have kept his water for himself?”

This story does an incredible job of expressing hardships and they way life could be. Some children may not understand the possibilities of other children in different countries and this book is a great way to expose them to another type of lifestyle. I think it does a great job of sharing new perspectives and showing an interesting view of two young children from Sudan.

I really love the artwork and use of silhouettes on the cover page. The colors are warm and vibrant which catches my eye. The cover leaves some mystery which I personally enjoy and makes me want to read the entire book.

“He rushed to the door and looked out. Nobody. Nothing. They had left him. He was alone.”

This is a true story about hardships and how different other people live. Some have to find safety no matter how long and hard it will take them.

Long walk to water by Linda Sue Park is a realistic fiction book that was published in 2010. Nya has gone to the pond to fetch water for her family. She is a hard worker and walks and is on her feet for eight hours a day. Salva is walking away from his ruined village to find safety from his war-torn town. His journey across Africa to Ethiopia and then Kenya will take many years to complete.

“Salva felt as if he had walked for hours while staying in exactly the same place.”

This is a rather serious story about some of the real life hardships that people face in third world countries. It is something that young children and readers should have the opportunity to be exposed too so they can learn more about our world and potentially how to help it.

This realistic fiction story is actually based on a true story. It was published in 2010 by Clarion Books. This is a mesmerizing dual narrative about two young people in the country in Sudan. They lead very different lives but this story shows how determined survivors may in fact find the future they are hoping for.

This is my #SouthSudan read for this month‘s #ReadAroundTheWorld challenge. This isn‘t one that I would have read otherwise as I don‘t typically read a lot of Middle Grade books- but this is based on a true story and was a very quick and engaging listen of Sudan both past and present. It‘s well-performed and the audio included a bit from both the man that inspired this and the author. I think this would be great for the classroom!! @JenP

Great book over a very important subject.

My daughter was reading this for her fifth grade book club at school and wanted me to read it too. It is based on the true story of Salva, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. His incredible journey was horrific yet inspiring and my daughter was amazed at the trials he faced when he was her age. The story of Nya, a girl in Sudan who spends much of her young life walking miles to fetch water for her family is interwoven into the book as well.

Thank you #SalvaDut.