A review by bkowalczik
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

4.0

I enjoyed both the story and the two main characters Park writes about in A Long Walk to Water. Salva endured so much getting to and then living in the refugee camps for so long, that when he was finally able to leave to America and then again learned that his father was still alive, I found my eyes getting a bit teary. I don’t think anything has come easy in Salva’s life. Even his not-for-profit took years of work to get off the ground.

In this short book the reader can see how a simple thing like access to a village pump of clean water can make so many improvements in so many lives, such as children being able to go to school!

I really enjoy Park’s writing. I have read several of her other books and they are all very well thought out and well written, helping me not only learn more about history and far off places in the world, but about how children might be experiencing often horrendous events.

This Thanksgiving I plan to raise a glass of clean tap water in gratitude for easy access to clean water and good food. BK

He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart. p29