A Long Walk To Water Book Report

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Hello there, the book that was read to us out loud during class was an interesting book. The books name is “A Long Walk To Water” By Linda Sue Park, the novel was about a young African boy named Salva and the struggles he had to go through in ordered to get reunited with his family again. The main theme throughout the novel was that Salva is getting taught the importance of perseverance and never losing hope. Salva always continued to work towards his goals and always tried to attain to them, by his Uncle as they traveled across the Akobo Desert. At the time, Salva was 11 years old when he got separated from his family during a war that broke out in Sudan, in which is now called South Sudan this war was fought because of the Second Sudanese

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