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An edition of M.C. Higgins, the great (1974)

M.C. Higgins, the great

with connections

by

  • ★★★ 3.00 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 9 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

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.

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Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Language
English
Pages
319

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Subjects
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-Americans
People
Mayo Cornelius Higgins
Places
Ohio

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M.C. Higgins, the great: with connections
1999, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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M.C. Higgins, the great
1999, Simon & Schuster
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January 1, 1996, Scholastic, Inc.
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M.C. Higgins, the great
1993, Aladdin Books, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International
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M.C. Higgins, the great.
1974, Macmillan
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Table of Contents

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{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Father (personal memoir) / by Gary Soto'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'My mother pieced quilts (poem) / by Teresa Palomo Acosta'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Runaway! (historical essay) from North star to freedom: the story of the Underground Railroad / by Gena K. Gorrell'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Dreams (poem) ; Dream dust (poem) ; As I grew older (poem) / by Langston Hughes'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The war of the wall (short story) / by Toni Cade Bambara'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Virginia Hamilton (biographical sketch).'}

Edition Notes

Novel, followed by narratives and excerpts from related stories and a biographical sketch of the author.
Newbery Medal, 1975

Series
HRW library
Genre
Juvenile fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.H1828 Mac 1999b

The Physical Object

Pagination
319 p. ;
Number of pages
319

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3964441M
Internet Archive
mchigginsgreatwi0000hami
ISBN 10
0030546567
LCCN
2001269178
OCLC/WorldCat
42280665
Library Thing
76779
Goodreads
69668

Work Description

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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