Silver people
Subtitle: voices from the Panama Canal
By: Margarita Engle
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780544109414
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Segregation; Juvenile fiction; History; Rain forests; Racism; Novels in verse; Fiction
Description: Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257).

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