M. C. Higgins, The Great

By Virginia Hamilton

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

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.