Description - Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by MS Margarita Engle
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 backbreaking 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 the Newbery Honor– winning author Margarita Engle could tell it. AUTHOR: Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet and novelist whose work has been published in many countries. Her books include The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor book and winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, the Pura Belpre Award, the Americas Award, and the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award; The Poet Slave of Cuba, winner of the Pura Belpre Award and the Americas Award; Tropical Secrets, The Firefly Letters; Hurricane Dancers; The Wild Book; and The Lightning Dreamer. She lives with her husband in Northern California. Visit her at www.margaritaengle.com. AGES: 12 and up
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