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Silver people

Margarita Engle

2014260 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2014
first published
  • 2014260 pages · ENGISBN 9780544109414
  • 2016HMH Books for Young Readers · 272 pagesISBN 9780544668706

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.

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Written forMiddle grade

Content notes

  • Racismmoderateunreviewed

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