M. C. Higgins, The Great

By Virginia Hamilton

Subjects: Ohio, fiction, Newbery Medal, African Americans, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, African American children, Large type books, Afro-Americans, Family, Coming of age, Fiction, Children's fiction, Mountain life, Juvenile fiction, Fiction in English, Family life

Description: 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.