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Author Engle, Margarita, author.

Title Silver people : voices from the Panama Canal / Margarita Engle. [Boundless electronic resource]

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 260 pages)
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Contents ""Front Cover""; ""Front Flap""; ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Contents""; ""The Panama Craze""; ""THE FOREST""; ""The Serpent Cut""; ""THE FOREST""; ""The Cockroach Slide""; ""THE FOREST""; ""Curiosity""; ""THE FOREST""; ""The Silver Ward""; ""THE FOREST""; ""Open Hours""; ""THE FOREST""; ""The Crocodile Bridge""; ""THE FOREST""; ""Sky Castles""; ""THE FOREST""; ""Back Matter""; ""Epilogue: Howl!""; ""Historical Note""; ""Selected References""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Back Flap""; ""Back Cover""; ""Spine""
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.
Audience NP Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.8 2 165231
Accelerated Reader MG+ 6.8 2 165231
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 257).
System Details Requires Boundless App.
Subject Novels in verse.
Racism -- Fiction.
Segregation -- Fiction.
Rain forests -- Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- Fiction.
Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- Fiction.
Panama -- Panama Canal.
Genre Electronic books.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Other Form: Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Engle, Margarita. Silver people Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 9780544109414 (DLC) 2013037485 (OCoLC)854944309
ISBN 9780544109223 : $8.99
0544109228 : $8.99
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