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Author:
Engle, Margarita.
Title:
Silver people : voices from the Panama Canal / Margarita Engle.
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
ix, 260 pages ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Rain forests--Juvenile fiction.
Rain forests--Fiction.
Panama Canal--History--Fiction.
Segregation--Juvenile fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
Racism--Juvenile fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Panama Canal (Panama)--History--Juvenile fiction.
Panama Canal (Panama)--History--Fiction.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
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.
Indexed by:
Junior Library Guild.
ISBN:
0544109414 (hardback) : :
9780544109414 (hardback) : :
LCCN:
2013037485
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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