Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal

In 1914, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world's two largest oceans and signaled America's emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood--and creating a miracle is no easy thing. Thousands lost their lives, and those who survived worked under the harshest conditions for only a few silver coins a day.
From the young "silver people" whose back-breaking labor built the Canal to the denizens of the endangered rainforest itself, this is the story of one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, as only Newbery Honor-winning author Margarita Engle could tell it.

ISBN-13: 9780544668706

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Clarion Books

Publication Date: 03-29-2016

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Age Range: 12 - UP Years

Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet and novelist. Her books include The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and the Pura Belpré Award winner; The Poet Slave of Cuba, winner of the Pura Belpré Award; The Wild Book; and The Lightning Dreamer. She lives in Northern California. Visit her website at www.margaritaengle.com.