Silver people : voices from the Panama Canal / Margarita Engle.
PZ7.5.E54 Si 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Silver people : voices from the Panama Canal / Margarita Engle.
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ISBN
9780544109414 hardcover
0544109414 hardcover
0544109414 hardcover
Published
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Language
English
Description
260 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PZ7.5.E54 Si 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
[Fic]
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257).
Awards
Jane Addams Honor, 2015.
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