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Nya's Long Walk

by Linda Sue Park

Illustrator: Brian Pinkney

Ages: 6+

Published: 2019

Publisher: Clarion Books/HMH

ISBN: 978-1-328-78133-8

Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Sudan, Water accessibility, Waterborne illnesses

Sepia watercolors show the Sudanese desert that Nya and her little sister have to cross for water. An adaptation of Park's novel.