Title: Silver people
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.
Subjects: Segregation, Juvenile fiction, History, Rain forests, Racism, Novels in verse, Fiction, Children's fiction, Stories in rhyme, Rain forests, fiction, Panama, fiction
Places: Panama, Panama Canal (Panama), Panama Canal