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Silver people

by Margarita Engle

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Popularity 18

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.

SegregationJuvenile fictionHistoryRain forestsRacismNovels in verseFictionChildren's fictionStories in rhymeRain forests, fictionPanama, fiction