<P> A Long Walk to Water is a short novel written by Linda Sue Park and published by Linda Sue Park in 2010 . It includes the true story of Salva Dut, he was apart of a tribe: Dinka, a Sudanese Lost Boy, and the fictional story of Nya, a young village girl that was apart of a tribe: Nuer . Park has used this book as a platform to support Dut's program, Water for South Sudan . </P> <P> Salva is a young 11 - year - old boy separated from his family during a war in what is now South Sudan because of the Second Sudanese Civil War . He has to walk for days with only the hope that one day he will find his family again . Salva also struggles to find food and water to survive along with avoiding gunmen and other threats . Salva leads 1500 lost boys of Sudan to a refugee camp near the Gilo River . 7 years later, he arrives in America . He lives with a family in Rochester, New York . Many years later he finds his father and starts a volunteer group to build wells in South Sudan called Water for South Sudan . </P>

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