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Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002.

M. C. Higgins, the great. - New York, Macmillan [1974] - 278 p. 22 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.

Newbery medal, 1975 Boston Globe Horn Book Award winner.

ISBN: 0027424804 9780027424805

LCCN: 72092439

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Family life--Ohio--Fiction.
Mountain life--Ohio--Fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ohio--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.H1828 / Mac

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]