About the Book: A Long Walk To Water
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. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours
walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva,
becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African
continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to
stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by