Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal Hardcover - 2014

One hundred years ago, 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.

Details

• Title Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
• Author Margarita Engle
• Binding Hardcover
• Pages 272
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Houghton Mifflin
• Date 2014-03-25
• ISBN 9780544109414 / 0544109414
• Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
• Dimensions 8.28 x 5.79 x 0.97 in (21.03 x 14.71 x 2.46 cm)
• Ages 12 to UP years
• Grade levels 7 - UP
• Reading level 1310
• Library of Congress subjects Novels in verse, Racism
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013037485
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC