Vector, by Carrie Toth for Fluency Matters/Wayside

Vector, by Carrie Toth

Magical Realism, written in Past tense

A vector of venom infects Antonio, a typical Panamanian teenager, with an illness that has far-reaching consequences. He is carried away from home and transported back in time to the early 1900s, where he unknowingly joins his grandfather on the construction of the Panama Canal. Will Antonio escape from the past and survive the consequences of working on one of the most dangerous construction sites in history? For the intermediate reader 

isbn 9781940408996