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Hamilton’s classic coming-of-age tale: The National Book Award– and Newbery Award–winning novel about a young man who must choose between supporting his tight-knit family and pursuing his own dreams
Mayo Cornelius Higgins perches on top of a homemade forty-foot tower, considering two destinies. Behind him is his family’s beloved house at the foot of a mountain that strip mining has reduced to loose rubble. In front of him, the beautiful Ohio River Valley and the great world beyond.
As M.C. weighs whether to stay with the family and home he loves or set off into the world on his own, there appear on the horizon two strangers who will make his decision all the more difficult.
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Fiction, African Americans, Juvenile fiction, Mountain life, African Americans in fiction, Family life, Family life in fiction, Coming of age in fiction, Coming of age, Ohio in fiction, Mountain life in fiction, Family, Families, Newbery Medal, Large type books, Ohio, fiction, African americans, fiction, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Afro-AmericansPeople
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M.C. Higgins, the great: with connections
1999, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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0030546567 9780030546563
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M.C. Higgins, the great
1993, Aladdin Books, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International
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068971694X 9780689716942
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"MAYO CORNELIUS HIGGINS RAISED HIS ARMS HIGH TO THE SKY and spread them wide."
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