TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,Virginia TI - M.C. Higgins, the great SN - 0689830742 PY - 1999/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Simon & Schuster KW - African Americans KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Newbery Medal, 1975 KW - Coming of age KW - Fiction KW - Family life KW - Ohio KW - Mountain life N1 - "25th anniversary edition"--T.p. verso N2 - As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love ER -