Silver People

Voices from the Panama Canal

MS Margarita Engle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2016
HMH Books (Verlag)
978-0-544-66870-6 (ISBN)

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Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of the creation of the Panama Canal in this powerful YA historical novel in verse.

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.

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 Belpre Award winner; The Poet Slave of Cuba, winner of the Pura Belpre Award; The Wild Book; and The Lightning Dreamer. She lives in Northern California. Visit her website at www.margaritaengle.com.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2016
Verlagsort	Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 203 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Gedichte / Lieder
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Tiere / Pflanzen / Natur
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
ISBN-10	0-544-66870-7 / 0544668707
ISBN-13	978-0-544-66870-6 / 9780544668706
Zustand	Neuware