Story Of Salva's Life In A Long Walk To Water

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"A Long Walk To Water" tells a story of Salva and his life In Sudan. In the beginning it tells us about how Salva is poor and is going to school. Then Salva's village gets attacked in Sudan, so he runs into the bushes to escape the shooting. After that Salva had to walk with many man and woman to refugee camps. When Salva was in the refugee camp they got news that some of them were going to America, and he was one of them. After Salva came back to Sudan to see that his dad was actually alive in the hospital, his dad told him his mom and some his brothers and sister were still alive. So then Salva made a big plan that he would make wells in Sudan with fresh water, so he went to get to work on that and was making one in Sudan and met this girl

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