A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

120 pages

This book is amazing! Salva is a young man who when war breaks out during school hours in 1985 in Southern Sudan must flea into the bush without seeking his family. The group of Dinka tribesmen walk to Ethiopia to find refuge. Nya, in Southern Sudan 2008 literally walks eight hours every day in order to have water fit to drink for her family. As their stories came together, it left tears in my eyes. It is truly amazing what people are capable of when they truly want to make a difference.

(from back of book)

Home for just long enough to ear, Nya would now make her second trip to the pond. To the pond and back-to the pond and back-nearly a full day of walking altogether. This was Nya's daily routine seven months of the year.

Daily. Every single day.

Salva ran until he could not run any more. Then he walked. For hours, until the sun was nearly gone from the sky.

As Salva walked, the same thoughts kept going through his head in rhythm with his steps. Where are we going? Where is my family. When will I see them again?