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Author:

Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002

Title:

M.C. Higgins, the great : with connections / Virginia Hamilton.

Publisher:

HoltRinehart and Winston,

Copyright Date:

1999?

Description:

319 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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:

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.

Series:

HRW Library

ISBN:

9780030546563
0030546567

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42280665

LCCN:

2001269178

Locations:

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)