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Author:

Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002.

Title:

M.C. Higgins, the great / Virginia Hamilton.

Edition:

Aladdin Paperbacks ed.

Publisher:

Aladdin Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

2006, c1974

Description:

v, 271 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Ohio--Juvenile fiction.
Mountain life--Ohio--Juvenile fiction.
Ohio--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Family life--Ohio--Fiction.
Mountain life--Ohio--Fiction.
Ohio--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Summary:

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.

Indexed by:

Wilson's Children, October 2006
Elem. School Library Collection, March 1998
Library Journal, November 1998
Booklist, January 1999
Kirkus Review, January 1999
Multicultural Review, March 2000

ISBN:

1415668442 (Follett bdg.)
9781415668443 (Follett bdg.)
1416914072 (pbk.)
9781416914075 (pbk.)

Locations:

YAPC771 -- Bondurant Community Library (Bondurant)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)