A Long Walk to Water

Author: Linda Sue Park
Genre: Biography
Publisher: HarperCollins, 2011
Pages: 128
Rating: Highly Recommend

Synopsis: 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 too hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes on 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. 

Review: This is one of those books that I discovered only because I was looking for something short in an effort to get caught up in my 2025 Reading Challenge. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a book they couldn't put down.