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Author Park, Linda Sue, author

Title A long walk to water / a novel by Linda Sue Park
Edition First edition
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2011
St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, [2010]
©2010
©2010

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Description 121 pages : map ; 20 cm
regular print
Summary An unforgettable new story from the winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal Two young people, two stories. One country. Southern Sudan, 2008: Nya is going to the pond to fetch water for her family there and back, twice a day. She walks for eight hours every day to perform this seemingly simple task
Notes "Based on a true story"
Audience For primary school age
Notes Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au
Subject Dut, Salva, 1974- -- Juvenile fiction.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Blacks -- Sudan -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories, American.
Children's stories.
Premier's Reading Challenge -- Year 5 - Year 6
Refugees -- Juvenile fiction.
Survival -- Juvenile fiction.
Water -- Juvenile fiction.
SUBJECT Africa http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99003690 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 9780547251271 (hbk)
9780547577319 (paperback)
9780702238703 (paperback)