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Discrimination: Reference/Discussion,Violence: Mild Violence
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
By Margarita Engle
Edition
By Margarita Engle
Hardcover edition
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Imprint Houghton Mifflin ISBN9780544109414
Awards and Honors Booklist Top Ten Books for Youth, Historical Fiction; Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature, Best Multicultural Books of 2014; Winner, IRA Notable Books for a Global Society, 2015; VOYA’s Perfect Tens 2013; 2015 CLA Notable Children’s Books in the English Language Arts; 2015 Jane Addams Award Honor, Older Readers; The New York Public Library, Best Books for Teens 2014!; 2015 Ameréicas Award Winner; Capitol Choices 2015Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
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Various characters—including laborers, engineers, healers, and nature itself—share tales of building the Panama Canal from 1906 to 1914, and of life in the Canal Zone. Historical note. Selected references.
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