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

challenging emotional hopeful sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

Read this because my middle schooler will be reading this for his English class. I wish I would have read this sooner. It's a middle grade/YA book so it was a quick read for me. This was fiction but it is based on the true story of Salva Dut (one of the "lost boys" of Sudan). The story goes back and forth between his story starting in 1985 and a girl, Nya, in 2008. War, heartbreak, perseverance, reunion. "How could memories feel so close and so far away at the same time." 5 *s
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