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.
Map. Afterword and authors’ notes from original edition as well as 10th anniversary edition.
Title alpha Una larga travesía hasta el agua (A Long Walk to Water)
Level Spanish Middle
Pages Count 144
Genre Fiction
Topics Salva Dut (1974– ). Refugees. Survival. Water supply. Black people. Sudan. History of Sudan. Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005). Spanish language materials.
Trim Size 7 3/5" x 5"
JLG Span Spring
Language Spanish
Rights type Print
Publication date 2020-11-23
JLG Release Date Mar 2021
Minimum grade 5
Maximum grade 8
Reading level Middle
Format Print
Spanish Middle (Grades 5-8)
Spanish Middle
Spanish Middle (Grades 5-8)
For Grades 5-8
Engaging fiction and nonfiction Spanish-language titles.