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M.C. Higgins, the Great Hardcover - 1999

by Virginia Hamilton; John Jude Palencar (Illustrator)

In a 25th anniversary edition, landmark Newbery Award-winning novel, "M.C. Higgins, The Great, " is reborn in a new package. As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, 15-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.


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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.

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  • Title M.C. Higgins, the Great
  • Author Virginia Hamilton; John Jude Palencar (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 25th Anniversary
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, NY
  • Date 1999-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780689830747 / 0689830742
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.35 x 1 in (23.72 x 16.13 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Reading level 560
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Appalachians
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Coming of age, African Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99014288
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2000, Page 79

About the author

The recipient of nearly every major award and honor in her field, including the 1992 Hans Christian Andersen Award, Virgina Hamilton was the first African American woman to be awarded the Newbery Medal, for M.C. Higgins, the Great. Renowned as a storyteller, anthologist, and lecturer as well as a novelist, Ms. Hamilton makes her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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