Title Silver people : voices from the Panama Canal / Margarita Engle.

Publication Info.

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Teen	YA HISTORY ENGLE	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department	TEEN FIC ENGL	Check Shelf

Description	260 pages ; 22 cm
Audience	Young adult
Study Program	Accelerated Reader 6.8
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 257).
Subject	Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
	Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
	Segregation -- Juvenile fiction.
	Rain forests -- Juvenile fiction.
	Novels in verse.
	Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- Fiction.
	Racism -- Fiction.
	Segregation -- Fiction.
	Rain forests -- Fiction.
	Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
	Rain forests. (OCoLC)fst01089466
	Segregation. (OCoLC)fst01111205
	Panama -- Panama Canal. (OCoLC)fst01243650
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN	9780544109414 (hardback)
	0544109414 (hardback)

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