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M.C. Higgins, the great : with connections  Cover Image Book Book

M.C. Higgins, the great : with connections

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  • ISBN: 0030546567
  • Physical Description: print
    319 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Austin : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1999?]

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General Note:
Novel, followed by narratives and excerpts from related stories and a biographical sketch of the author.
Formatted Contents Note: Connections: The banana tree (short story) / by James Berry -- Father (personal memoir) / by Gary Soto -- My mother pieced quilts (poem) / by Teresa Palomo Acosta -- Runaway! (historical essay) from North star to freedom: the story of the Underground Railroad / by Gena K. Gorrell -- Dreams (poem) ; Dream dust (poem) ; As I grew older (poem) / by Langston Hughes -- The war of the wall (short story) / by Toni Cade Bambara -- Virginia Hamilton (biographical sketch).
Summary, etc.: 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.
Awards Note:
Newbery Medal, 1975.
Subject: African Americans Juvenile fiction
Family Ohio Juvenile fiction
Mountain life Ohio Juvenile fiction
African Americans Fiction
Coming of age Fiction
Family life Ohio Fiction
Mountain life Ohio Fiction
Ohio Juvenile fiction
Ohio Fiction

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