M.C. Higgins, the great
Subtitle: with connections
By: Virginia Hamilton.
Series: HRW library
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; Family -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction; Mountain life -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Coming of age -- Fiction; Family life -- Ohio -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Ohio -- Fiction; Ohio -- Juvenile fiction; Ohio -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile 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: Novel, followed by narratives and excerpts from related stories and a biographical sketch of the author.
Newbery Medal, 1975
Table of contents: title: Connections: The banana tree (short story) / by James Berry; title: Father (personal memoir) / by Gary Soto; title: My mother pieced quilts (poem) / by Teresa Palomo Acosta; title: Runaway! (historical essay) from North star to freedom: the story of the Underground Railroad / by Gena K. Gorrell; title: Dreams (poem) ; Dream dust (poem) ; As I grew older (poem) / by Langston Hughes; title: The war of the wall (short story) / by Toni Cade Bambara; title: Virginia Hamilton (biographical sketch).