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Silver people : voices from the Panama Canal / Margarita Engle

Author
Engle, Margarita
Published
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Physical Description
260 pages ; 22 cm

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Summary
Told in free-verse narratives, 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.
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ISBN
9780544109414 (hardback)
0544109414 (hardback)
Audience Notes
Young adult
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 257).
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