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M. C. Higgins the Great

 

Category: Fiction: Youth

Grade Level: Grades 7 to 9


Author: Virginia Hamilton

 

Copyright/published Year: 1988 by Simon & Schuster

 

ISBN: 0020434901

 

Binding: Paper


A Black youth dreams that his mother will become a singing star and take the family away from the strip mining terrain of Sarah's Mountain.

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.

This is the 1975 Newbery Winner, see a complete list.

 


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