260 pages
English language
Published Jan. 13, 2014
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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
- Segregation
- Juvenile fiction
- History
- Rain forests
- Racism
- Novels in verse
- Fiction
Places
- Panama
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Panama Canal