2015, Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award, Nominee2013, North Carolina Children's Book Award, Nominee2013, Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, Nominee2014, Virginia Readers Choice Award, Nominee2013, Young Hoosier Book Award, Nominee2013, Golden Sower Award, Nominee2013, Nutmeg Book Award, Nominee2012, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Nominee2012, Kentucky Bluegrass Award, Nominee2011, Black-Eyed Susan Award, Nominee2012, Volunteer State Book Awards, Runner-Up2011, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Winner2013, Nene Award, Nominee2013, Sasquatch Award, Nominee2012, Flicker Tale Children's Book Award, Nominee2013, Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award, Nominee2013, Sunshine State Young Reader's Award, Nominee
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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About the Author
Linda Sue Park received the 2002 Newbery Medal for A Single Shard. In addition to novels, she has written picture books and poetry for young readers. Before turning to children's books, she worked as a journalist, a food critic, and a teacher of English as a second language. She lives with her family in Rochester, New York.
