Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002.

M.C. Higgins, the great / Virginia Hamilton. - 1st Aladdin Books ed. - New York : Toronto : New York : Aladdin Books ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993. - 278 p. ; 19 cm.

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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African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Families--Ohio--Fiction.
Mountain life--Ohio--Fiction.
Newbery Medal.


Ohio--Fiction.

JUV PZ 7 .H1828 / Mac 1993