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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 armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way.
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My grandson, age 11, read this book in school and recommended it to me. I was amazed and awed by Salva's strength and perseverance through incredible hardships as a young boy about the age of my grandson. I appreciate that his teacher recommended this book; all if us who live relatively easy lives need to know that not all people enjoy the opportunities we have and that we can do our part to help improve the lives of others. My grandson and I will be making a donation to the water project for Christmas this year.
This was for my 7th grade son was assigned to read in school. This was the first book my son had ever finished, talked about and even read note than he was assigned to do. My son is dyslexic which makes reading a book laborious or even impossible. I bought the feature that reads it to him which he loved and made it more interesting since they had music and the reader used different voices for each character. It also highlighted the words as it read and for words that are hard it give the definition. Amazing it opens up a whole new world for struggling readers.
As written by my 12 year old son, who read the book.
It was a pretty good book. I liked it. It's a story about a boy named Salva, from childhood to young adult. Salva lives in a village in Sudan. To start he is in school learning the Arabic language because he has to be moved, because of war, and needs to know a new language. He has to travel, alone, with no adults to care for him, to a refuge camp. He has to take a long and treacherous path with a group of people to another refuge camp. In the camp, there was a list. If your name was on the list, you would be moved to another place. Later on in the story, it is reveled that they are going to a place in new York, were Salva will live for the rest of his childhood. He ends meeting his new family, and lives with them in new York for years. When he is on his computer checking his emails he finds a email about his father's stomach surgery. With loads of excitement he plans a time to see his father. He is then at the hospital, where in a dramatic scene, he tells his father that he is his son. They hugged. Later, at the end of the book, he quotes his father, while working. "A step at a time, one problem at a time-just figure out this one problem."
The Long Walk to Water takes place in Sudan. It's about the problems of living in Southern Sudan. Life in Sudan was very hard because there was a civil war between the South of Sudan and North of Sudan. Another problem is that there is a lack of good drinking water.
In the civil war, the bad guys would capture boys and make them be soldiers. Then they would make boys do horrible things as soldiers. A lot of the boys escaped and had to walk all the way across Southern Sudan. The boys then walked, barefoot, across a desert in Ethiopia to get to a refugee camp. On the walk to the refugee camp, some would die from hunger and exhaustion, and some would get eaten by lions. After living in a refugee camp for several years, the Ethiopian soldiers kicked them out of the camp and made people go across the Gilo river. People were shot and killed by Crocodiles as people went across the Gilo river. Kids that survived had to walk all the way to Kenya without any adults to look after them. The lucky ones that made it too a refugee camp lived there for many years. Some kids eventually got to go to America. Many of the Lost Boys of Sudan never got to see their parents again. The ones that did didn't see their parents until they were adults.
In Sudan, many people don't drink clean water like the people in the United States. People in Sudan have to drink from the same puddles that animals drink and pee in. Water that animals drink and pee in have parasites. People that drink this water get sick from the parasites. Some people even die from the parasites. Many people in Sudan spend their whole lives with parasites in their bodies.
In The Long Walk to Water, the author created two characters. One character
,named Salva, demonstrates the sadness of living through the war. The other character, named Nya, shows the lack of good water in Sudan.
This book is really good. It taught me about the civil war that lasted for almost thirty years and it taught me about the water problems in Sudan.
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