![]() ![]() It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood-and creating a miracle is no easy thing. ![]() Publisher's synopsis: 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. Genres: Central America, Historical Fiction, LaborĪlso by this author: The Sky Painter, Hurricane Dancers, Drum Dream Girl ![]() Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on 2014 Instead, he finds an apartheid system where people of color are subjected to treacherous working conditions and paid in silver the whites are paid in gold. The protagonist is Mateo, a young boy from the Caribbean, lured with promises of good pay and work. ![]() Using her trademark style-multiple voices in free verse to share untold historical events -Margarita Engle introduces young readers to the builders of the Panama Canal. ![]()
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