M.C. Higgins, the great / Virginia Hamilton.
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TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, c1999.Description: 232 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0689830742
- 9780689830747
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Hamilton, Virginia | Available | 33111004550626 | ||||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | Hamilton Vir | 1975 | Available | Newbery/Caldecott Award Winner | 33111004548471 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Discover this transcendent middle grade masterpiece about a young black boy whose quiet rural live in the Appalachian Mountains begins to change--winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.
Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home.
M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it--two strangers are making their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has the kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered.
"25th anniversary edition"--T.p. verso.
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.