num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: M.C. Higgins, the Great
titlecomplete: M.C. Higgins, the Great
genres: Fiction, Family, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 4252
places: Kentucky
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award
category: Children's Books, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers