From the Bookshelf of Global Concerns Classroom 2016-2017 Reading List…

[close] A novel based on a true story, told from the perspectives of two different characters in two different times in Sudan's history. A girl Nya, who makes the two hour journey to fetch water for her family twice a day, and Salva, a refugee and "lost boy" of Sudan searching for any remaining family. The story discusses the life of inner-displaced persons during war and the water crisis and lack of sanitation procedures in Sudan.