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Silver people by Margarita Engle · Booklabria

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First published: 2014
Language: English
Editions: 2

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: History
Children's fiction
Racism
Segregation
Rain forests
Panama
Set in: Panama
Panama Canal

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