Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
2015 · Grades 4-8 · Nominee
About This Book
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way.
Awards
Virginia Readers Choice Award
2014 · Middle School · Nominee
Golden Sower Award
2013 · Young Adult · Nominee
Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award
2013 · Children's · Nominee
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2013 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Nene Award
2013 · Children's Fiction · Nominee
North Carolina Children's Book Award
2013 · Junior Book · Nominee
Nutmeg Book Award
2013 · Teen · Nominee
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2013 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Sasquatch Award
2013 · Children/Young Adult · Nominee
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2013 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Young Hoosier Book Award
2013 · Middle Grades · Nominee
Flicker Tale Children's Book Award
2012 · Juvenile · Nominee
Kentucky Bluegrass Award
2012 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2012 · Junior Book · Nominee
Volunteer State Book Award
2012 · Middle School · Runner-Up
Black-Eyed Susan Award
2011 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Jane Addams Children's Book Award
2011 · Books for Older Children · Winner
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