Cover ArtA Long Walk to Water is a great read because the story is not as long as the trips Nya, a South Sudanian of the Nuer tribe, has to take for her family to drink. In the few pages, a moving and true story comes to light through two perspectives, living in different times but in the same place, South Sudan, and with the same struggle, a lack of nearby and clean drinking water. The book introduces characters that live on to change the lives of others, as well as a cause to support. 
- Natasha, 8th grade teen volunteer
Publisher description:
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.