"A Long Walk To Water" by Linda Sue Park describes the life of a female child living in poverty. Nya is 11 and Nuer, a rival tribe with the Dinka. She has to walk a very long way to get water for her family because she is a girl. Her younger sister, Akeer gets sick from the muddy water that they all have to drink, because they don't have a well. Then Nya's father, the chief, talks with a visitor and the visitor tells him there is water between two trees. They clear the land and start to drill. While they are doing that, Nya's father begins clearing land elsewhere, to build a school. Nya is excited about all these changes and goes to thank the visitor, a Dinka man named
