M.C. Higgins, the great
By: Virginia Hamilton.
Edition: 1st Aladdin Books ed.
Publisher: Aladdin Books; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York; Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Coming of age -- Fiction; Family life -- Ohio -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Ohio -- Fiction; 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.