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M.C. Higgins, the Great Paperback - 2006

by Virginia Hamilton

When two strangers enter his life, M.C. Higgins learns the answer to saving his home and family from the slag heap of an Ohio strip mine. "All of the characters have vitality and credibility as well as a unique quality that makes them unforgettable . . ".--The Horn Book. Newbery Medal; National Book Award; ALA Notable Children's Book; School Library Journal Best of the Best; New York Times Outstanding Children's Books of the Year.


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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
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Aladdin Paperbacks, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-04-01
  • ISBN 9781416914075 / 1416914072
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.65 x 5.2 x 0.78 in (19.43 x 13.21 x 1.98 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 560
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Self-Esteem
  • Library of Congress subjects Coming of age, African Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99014288
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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