When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000, 2, 7, 2000
subjects: dut, salva, 1974-, fiction, refugees, survival, water, blacks, sudan, fiction, sudan, history, civil war, 1983-2005, fiction, survival skills, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, castaways
Editions
Park, Linda Sue
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2010)
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Schools: 45
Park, Linda Sue
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Schools: 30