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Author:
Engle, Margarita, author.
Title:
Silver people : voices from the Panama Canal / Margarita Engle.
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
pages cm
Subject:
Novels in verse.
Racism--Fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
Rain forests--Fiction.
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.
ISBN:
0544668707
9780544668706 (softcover)
LCCN:
bl2016008858
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)
AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

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