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Book Report: A Long Walk To Water
In the book a long walk to water, by Linda Sue Park, an 11 year old boy named Salva goes through some tough times in his life. What started it all was that his school was attacked. Salva had to leave his family behind and start his journey with random people that he had never seen before. He didn't know where he was going but they were trying to escape the war that was happening in his country. Later in his journey he finally gets to find one of his family members, his uncle. Salva and his group slowly grows and they get to a refugee camp and many years later when Salva has grown up he gets to go to America. When living there he starts a campaign to help build wells in south Sudan, where he grew up, to help everyone there have clean fresh water.

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