Silver people
About this book
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
- children's fiction
- fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- novels in verse
- panama, fiction
- racism
- rain forests
- rain forests, fiction
- segregation
- stories in rhyme