| M.C. Higgins, the Great Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Hamilton, Virginia (Author), Palencar, John Jude (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0689830742 ISBN-13: 9780689830747 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1999 Annotation: In a 25th anniversary edition, landmark Newbery Award-winning novel, "M.C. Higgins, The Great, " is reborn in a new package. As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, 15-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american - Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99014288 |
| Lexile Measure: 560 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.35" W x 9.34" (0.99 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 125 Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Discover this transcendent middle grade masterpiece about a young black boy whose quiet rural live in the Appalachian Mountains begins to change--winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home. M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it--two strangers are making their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has the kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hamilton, Virginia: - The recipient of nearly every major award and honor in her field, including the 1992 Hans Christian Anderson Award, Virgina Hamilton was the first African-American woman to be awarded the Newbery Medal, for M.C. Higgins The Great. Renowned as a storyteller, anthologist and lecturer as well as a novelist, Ms. Hamilton makes her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio. |