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.
- ISBN13 9780544109414
- Publish Date 25 March 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English