A Long Walk to Water
Based on a True Story
Ranked #2 in Water, Ranked #18 in Ethiopia — see more rankings.
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to... more
Rankings by Category
A Long Walk to Water is ranked in the following categories:
- #54 in 10-Year-Old
- #59 in 11-Year-Old
- #100 in 12-Year-Old
- #95 in 4th Grade
- #46 in 5th Grade
- #59 in 6th Grade
- #100 in 7th Grade
- #77 in 9-Year-Old
- #19 in Africa
- #55 in Courage
- #23 in Empathy
- #37 in English
- #36 in Learning English
- #90 in Long
- #52 in Middle School
- #70 in New York Times Bestseller
- #66 in South Africa
- #61 in Spanish Civil War
- #68 in Survival
- #89 in Teen
- #36 in Teen Adventure
- #63 in Teen Boys
- #30 in Teen Girls
- #54 in True Stories
- #34 in True Story
- #69 in Used
- #47 in Young Teen
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