A #1 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 hoursa�TM walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the a��lost boysa�\x9d 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 armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nyaa�TMs in an astonishing and moving way.
Age Range: 10-12 | Grade Level: 5-7 | Lexile Measure: 720L