She also has a little brother that her mom takes care of at home. Her family home is far from the nearest pond, where she walks twice a day to support her parents and younger sister, Akeer. She and her family live in South Sudan in 2008. Nya is an 11-year-old girl who walks eight hours to fetch water from the pond. He helps others in need of clean water in South Sudan. Years later, he finds his father who tells him that most of his family survived. He lives with a family in Rochester, New York. Seven years later, he arrives in America. On his way, many people die including his uncle and some of his friends. Salva leads one thousand five hundred fellow lost boys to a refugee camp near the Gilo River. Salva also struggles to find food and water to survive along with avoiding rebels, lions and other threats. He has to walk for weeks, hoping that one day he will find his family again. Salva Dut was separated from his family during a civil war in what is now South Sudan. It is a powerful work of fiction that is based on a true story, chronicling the journeys of two young children who are struggling to survive in war-torn Sudan. Park used this book as a platform to support Dut's organization, Water for South Sudan. It blends the true story of Salva Dut whose story is based in 1985, a part of the Dinka tribe and a Sudanese Lost Boy, and the fictional story of Nya whose story is based in 2008, a young village girl that was a part of the Nuer tribe. A Long Walk to Water is a short novel written by Linda Sue Park and published in 2010.
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