M.C. Higgins, the great
By: Virginia Hamilton.
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Large type books; African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Coming of age -- Fiction; Family life -- Ohio -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Ohio -- Fiction; Large type books; Ohio -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Newbery Medal, 1975