A Long Walk to Water
by Linda Sue Park • Related Edition: Spanish-Language
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- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
- African
Year Published 2009
Word Count 21,221
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 720L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 140710, 3.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Refugees
- Blacks--Sudan--Fiction
- Dut, Salva, 1974---Juvenile fiction
- Dut, Salva, 1974---Fiction
- Civil War, 1983-2005
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Blacks
- Survival--Fiction
- Dut, Salva
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Orphans & Foster Homes
- History
- Water supply--Fiction
- Survival
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure | Survival Stories
- Survival skills
- Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Africa
- Refugees--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Military & Wars
- Sudan
- Water
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