A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

by Linda Sue Park

“Do you see that group of bushes? You need only to walk as far as those bushes. . . .

Uncle had helped him get through the desert that way, bit by bit, one step at a time. Perhaps . . . perhaps Salva could get through life at the camp in the same way. I need only to get through the rest of this day, he told himself. This day and no other.