Based on a True Story
by Linda Sue Park
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appears in For 9 Year Olds, For 10 Year Olds, and Teen.
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two elevenyearolds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy 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" o...
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appears in For 9 Year Olds, For 10 Year Olds, and Teen.
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Consider 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Recommended by 4 sources.
“Starts as a lean, suspenseful time-travel premise that quickly settles into an immersive, character-focused saga. Its chief useful part is the way everyday 1960s small-town life and personal relationships make the historical stakes feel immediate; the novel rewards readers who relish atmosphere and slow moral puzzles. The main limitation is length and digressions—long domestic passages and episodic subplots stretch the middle and can undercut urgency for readers who wanted a tighter thriller.”
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