Long Walk to Water

 

A review of a Long Walk to Water

 "A long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park  is a true story about  Salva and Nya who live in different countries in Africa.  It tells two separate stories.  One is about evacuating a village to another country.  That is the Salva’s  part of the story where a war happens and the boy and family have to leave the country.  He spends many years at the refugee camp after the country kicks him out.  He goes through many different challenges including crossing the Nile River which has crocodiles in it and over a thousand people shooting at the escaping refugees.  In the Nya’s  story, every day she has to go to get water in another village and it takes her all day to go there and come back with water.  When the water runs out, she and her family have to leave to go to a camp right next to a lake.  Salva gets evacuated to America by himself after getting lost from his family.  Then he returns to Africa to help other Africans.  At the end of the story Salva helps the girl’s village and they meet.  This is a really good book that I highly recommend.  It is set in a really interesting country.  I like that there are two stories because it makes it interesting.  The Salva works as hard as he can so that the Nya’s village wouldn’t fall apart.  People who like action adventure would like this book.  With this book, if you read the first word, you will read the last word.