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A Long Walk to Water — Linda Sue Park
Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

A Long Walk to Water

a novel by Linda Sue Park
Two stories run side by side across the same stretch of southern Sudan, twenty-three years apart: in 2008, a girl named Nya spends her days walking hours to a pond and back so her family has water, while in 1985 an eleven-year-old boy named Salva runs from the gunfire that shatters his school day and becomes one of thousands of “lost boys” walking across Africa toward safety. Based on the true story of Salva Dut, Linda Sue Park (author) follows him through deserts, rivers, and years of refugee camps, sustained by one uncle’s advice to take the walk one step at a time — until the two stories finally meet. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel, with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT & TOEFL-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.
Level 6Jane Addams Award 2011Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based
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Level 6 · Expert ReadersUS Grade 7–8Lexile 720LAR (ATOS) 5.0 · Jane Addams Award (2011)
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Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
💧 Water & Survival Science
Why unsafe water spreads disease and how a borehole well changes a village, what dehydration does to a body crossing the Akobo desert, the real dangers of the Nile and Gilo River crossings, and the engineering behind drilling for clean water where every drop once had to be carried.
PRIMARY LENS
🌍 Sudan’s Civil War & Refugee History
The Second Sudanese Civil War that emptied Salva’s village, the Dinka and Nuer peoples and the tensions between them, life inside the Itang and Kakuma refugee camps, and the real airlift that brought thousands of “lost boys” of Sudan to new homes in the United States.
SUPPORTING
🧠 Leadership & Perseverance
How “one step at a time” turns an impossible distance into a survivable one, what it takes for a boy to lead over a thousand others across a border, and how persistence hardens into a life’s mission of giving back.
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Progress
PT1
Part 1 · Chapters 1–2
Nya’s Daily Walk to the Pond • Gunfire Interrupts a School Day • A Boy Runs Into the Bush Alone
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PT2
Part 2 · Chapters 3–5
Left Behind in a Barn • Honey Found With the Jur-chol • A Friend Named Marial and a Second Trip for Water
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PT3
Part 3 · Chapters 6–7
Uncle Jewiir Joins the Group • A Loss in Lion Country • Reed Boats on the Bank of the Nile
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PT4
Part 4 · Chapters 8–10
Crossing the Great River • One Step at a Time Through the Desert • Men With Guns on the Last Night
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PT5
Part 5 · Chapters 11–12
Six Years in the Itang Camp • Driven Into the Gilo River • Strangers Survey the Land Between Two Trees
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PT6
Part 6 · Chapters 13–14
Leading Fifteen Hundred Boys to Kenya • English Lessons From a Volunteer Named Michael • Drilling Begins in Nya’s Village
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PT7
Part 7 · Chapters 15–16
Chosen for America • A New Family in Rochester, New York • News in a Message From Far Away
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PT8
Part 8 · Chapters 17–18
A Reunion at a Clinic in Sudan • A Project Takes Shape • Water Rises in Nya’s Village and Two Stories Meet
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