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Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to  \nAmerica  \nin 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. ISBN  \n978-0-547-25127-1  \n1. Dut, Salva, 1974?—Juvenile fiction. [1 . Dut, Salva, 1974?—Fiction.  \n2. Refugees—Fiction. 3. Survival—Fiction. 4. Water—Fiction. 5. Blacks—Sudan—Fiction.  \n6. Sudan—History—Civil War, 1983–2005—Fiction.] I. Title.  \nPZ7 . P22115Lo 2009  \n[Fic]—dc22  \n2009048857  \nManufactured in the United States of America QFF 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \n4500253890  \nTo Ben, again  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nSouthern Sudan, 2008  \nGoing was easy.  \nGoing, the big plastic container held only air. Tall f or her eleven years, Nya could switch the handle from one hand to the other, swing the container by her side, or cradle it in both arms. She could even drag it behind her, bumping it against the ground and raising a tiny cloud of dust with each step.  \nThere was little weight, going. There was only heat, the sun already baking the air, even though it was long before noon. It would take her half the morning if she didn't stop on the way.  \nHeat. Time. And thorns.  \nSouthern Sudan, 1985  \nSalva sat cross-legged on the bench. He kept his head turned toward the front, hands folded, back perfectly straight. Everything about him was paying attention to the teacher—everything except his eyes and his mind.  \nHis eyes kept flicking toward the window, through which he could seethe road. The road home. Just a little while longer—a few minutes more—and he would be walking on that road.  \nThe teacher droned on with the lesson, about the Arabic language. Salva spoke the language of his Dinka tribe at home. But in school he learned Arabic, the official language of the Sudanese government far away to the north. Eleven years old on his last birthday, Salva was a good student. 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