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This summer, I read, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park. This book is about two different people in two different times in similar situations. In one time, it's set in the 80s during a war in the middle east and this kid is at his school when they start dropping bombs around him. He runs into the bush away from home. He then takes refuge with a group of people. This relates to today because there is warfare in the middle east right now, and lots of people are taking refuge. This can also relate to this other kid in this other time. She walks every day to get water from the water pump. It actually does take her all day, so I feel as if she feels that she is being separated from her family and civilization when she goes to get water. Back to this other kid now, he is then left behind by this group of refugees because he is a child and he thinks that they thought that he was going to slow them down. I don't want to give away the rest of the book so I won't say any more than I already have.