https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt Respond to A LONG WALK TO WATER. en-us 2016-10-20 18:58:23 UTC 2020-12-03 18:43:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199167 I think the ending was just like... Oh my gosh... That was one of the best endings like... ever. The stuff that Salva had to endure. And whenever he was told he was going to America it was sad and great at the same time and the way the book put it was just like... wow. It was great because he got to leave to America. But it was sad because by the rules it said that they had to have no living family members or whatever so as far as we knew, it meant all his family was dead. So many things I want to say and so little time! Walking all that way multiple times a day and its just like wow I can't even imagine....]]> 2016-10-20 19:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199167 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199200 One word. Wow. This story was both inspiring and creative, and had a lot of meaning. Sometimes, it was hard to think that Salva's part was true because it was so eventful and amazing! I have to say, in my opinion my favorite sentence was "My name is Salva" because it connected the two stories completely. I still can't believe that Salva went through all of the things he did. The whole basis of the story was emotional, and the whole time I was attached to Salva and Nya. I just knew their stories would collide at some point. I just knew! Why would you have a book with two stories that don't have a connection! I absolutely was attached to everything and it was all so amazing!]]> 2016-10-20 19:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199200 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199381 I loved this book so much! I remember all the cliff hangers, they were in really good places! Like for example, when Salva thought he saw his mother, and he was shouting for her, BAM! End of the chapter, it just pulled me right in. I also remember when Salva's friend died, and when he found the bird that lead them to the bee's nest. 
I can wait until my mom reads it, then we can talk about everything that has happened. I will probably read this to my niece when I see her again. I will read this book over and over again, it's an amazing book that should be shared with everyone! The ending was the best part when Nya, and Salva's stories came together. I was in tears of joy!

]]> 2016-10-20 19:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199381 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199398 Wow. I would do that ´I am so stunned we just literally finished this book a minute ago' effect thing, but we finished it so long ago. So now I all have to say is that I have so many ideas for fundraising! I want to have a school-wide bake sale, a Christmas festival where you have to buy tickets and stuff, and I´m really excited to do the Long Walk to Water fundraiser this year! I can´t believe that last year, our school raised the most money in the world? Why us? I mean, it had to be someone, but us? Really? I really wish I could meet Salva and talk to him about... well.... everything! After reading that book it seems impossible for someone to go through that, and then come to America and I get to talk to him! 
It´s one thing to read about a person, but to meet them in real life is an impossible dream to me! He suddenly woke up in the middle of a war and then his uncle died, then his best friend died, and then he had to walk all the way to Ethiopia just to get kicked out a while later.  
And then he just shows up at your school one day and you nearly have a heart attack from shock! And that ending, though! I thought Nya´s story was just a connection between the two so that you understood his water charity, but then he met Nya in the end! Best ending ever! I loved it!]]> 2016-10-20 19:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199398 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199580 I think the book ended perfectly when Salva said to Nya, "My name is Salva." I was like, how emotional! It took a truly skilled author to make Nya's story go by in barely a year and Salva's story describe a lifetime. I can't believe I predicted the ending! When I listened that Nya described the lead construction worker when the workers would get tired he would go through a system to entice them back to work, and Salva described how he did that when he was the leader of the tribe. I thought it was so sad int he middle of the book when Salva's uncle was shot. Uncle Jewier had been one of the only family Salva had left and then for those men just to pluck him out and shoot him just for the fun of it was heartbreaking. I would not have had the perserverance Salva had to keep on going. It is kind of funny when Mrs. Mueller was talking about when she picked Salva up from the airport and she was like, "SALVA DUT is IN MY CAR!"  ]]> 2016-10-20 19:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199580 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199725 I think that Long Walk To Water, was a great book. I mean to create a fake story, and put it beside a real story must've been hard. I try to make books all the time, but I usually get wrapped up in something else. So I don't usually finish them. Also I think that combining both of the story's at the end must have been hard. It turned out great. I was so expecting Salva to be at the end but, it still winded me too figure out that Salva had been building the well the whole time. Also I thought that Salva's life was pretty devistating. I think that the author did a great job describing the horors of Salva's life.]]> 2016-10-20 19:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199725 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199851   A Long Walk to Water, in my opinion, was a very inspirational book. It really showed me what big of a difference one person can make, and that really inspired me. I was also very amazed by how difficult Salva's life was, like how he lost his family,  and then his friend was killed by a lion, and so many difficult experiences happened in his life. It almost seems as if that story was fiction, because the plot was so great and filled with action and sadness, and it had so many things a great story would need. The ending of that book, like most books, it was very emotional. It was just like the perfect way to wrap up the book, and it just gave Salva's story a great ending. (Even though it didn't technically end Salva's story. I also thought that the author did a great job writing this book. It was such a good story, way better than having somebody just simply retelling it, it really made the story seem like, super awesome. Overall, I would totally give A Long Walk to Water 5 stars, wonderful book.]]> 2016-10-20 19:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132199851 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132200734   I loved A Long Walk To Water! I really liked how the layout of the story was two different narrators.  I also liked how the two different narrators are a non-fiction and fiction people.  Another thing I liked about this story is ending, because it actually mixed the two stories together, because Salva (The non-fiction character) went to Nya's (The Fiction character) little village to help with their water.  ]]> 2016-10-20 19:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132200734 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132201309 A Long Walk to Water was amazing! There were some sad parts, but some really good, happy parts too. Salva watched his uncle die, and picture your feet in his shoes. Would you be able to handle that? When Salva helped the Newer tribe in the end, it made me cry! ]]> 2016-10-20 19:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132201309 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132201734 I love A Long Walk to water. I'm so happy for Salva, because through all of the hardships he faced, he kept going and was able to help people in Sudan get clean water. ]]> 2016-10-20 19:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132201734 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132202446 Throughout this book I was thinking that like, this is the legendary book everyone prepares for, so I liked it! Also, I was thinking at the end like, THE STORIES ALEIN!!!]]> 2016-10-20 19:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132202446 https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132202802 A Long Walk to Water was a strong ending. Salva went through a lot in Africa without a family. I can't imagine going through all that without anyone.]]> 2016-10-20 19:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Hollymueller/dqfbajkkswnt/wish/132202802