TY - BOOK AB - 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. AU - Engle, Margarita, CN - PZ7.5.E54 CN - PZ7.5.E54 ID - 718574 KW - Novels in verse. KW - Racism KW - Segregation KW - Rain forests N2 - 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. SN - 9780544109414 SN - 0544109414 T1 - Silver people :voices from the Panama Canal / TI - Silver people :voices from the Panama Canal / ER -