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Seventh graders at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Slidell, La., pose for a photo with the book "A Long Walk to Water," a nonfiction novel by Linda Sue Park. The book spurred the students to raise funds for a nonprofit that drills water wells in South Sudan. (CNS/Clarion Herald/Beth Donze)

Seventh graders at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Slidell, La., pose for a photo with the book "A Long Walk to Water," a nonfiction novel by Linda Sue Park. (CNS/Clarion Herald/Beth Donze)