by Linda Sue Park
Hennepin County Library hardcover 120 pages
genre: realistic fiction
Wow! I see why Sarah Rother wanted to use this with 8th graders - it fits perfectly with our Africa / water unit. Based on Salva Dut's real-life experiences in Sudan in the 1980s, this story alternates between his reality avoiding war and starvation and the story of Nya, a girl in the Sudan in 2008. Her reality involves walking for an entire day, every day, to get water from a mudhole for her family. Two trips barefoot. Until the day strange men show up in her village. Powerful story! Makes me sad, though, at how much we take for granted in our American lives
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You'll need to introduce Joe and the new mountaineer social studies teacher to this book. Hopefully they will continue H2O for Life and can use it. I think it's a great book!
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