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A review by ctowner21
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
5.0
Very powerful. A book about empathy and the power of the human spirit.
Follows the real life story of a boy during the Sudan wars, his struggles to get to safety, without his family, losing friends along the way. He helped get over 1000 boys to safety when his first refugee camp closed. He was chosen to move to America when he was over 20 years old. When he got there, he started learning more English. Eventually he finds his father and goes to see him and finds out his mother is safe too. He wants to help so he does a lot of research and fundraising back in America on how to help his people.
In the present, we follow a little girl who walks for over 8 hours a day (2 trips) to get water for her family. Eventually, men come to her village to build a tap for her village. They find clean water and make a tap and build a school. Eventually, she finds out that the man in charge is a man from a rival tribe. She goes to talk to him and we find out that he is the boy from the "past" story. I think I knew when she talked about how he spoke with the men (coax them, joke with them and only sometimes was he angry) because that's how he spoke with the boys when he was trying to get them to the new refugee camp.
Follows the real life story of a boy during the Sudan wars, his struggles to get to safety, without his family, losing friends along the way. He helped get over 1000 boys to safety when his first refugee camp closed. He was chosen to move to America when he was over 20 years old. When he got there, he started learning more English. Eventually he finds his father and goes to see him and finds out his mother is safe too. He wants to help so he does a lot of research and fundraising back in America on how to help his people.
In the present, we follow a little girl who walks for over 8 hours a day (2 trips) to get water for her family. Eventually, men come to her village to build a tap for her village. They find clean water and make a tap and build a school. Eventually, she finds out that the man in charge is a man from a rival tribe. She goes to talk to him and we find out that he is the boy from the "past" story. I think I knew when she talked about how he spoke with the men (coax them, joke with them and only sometimes was he angry) because that's how he spoke with the boys when he was trying to get them to the new refugee camp.