TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,Virginia TI - M.C. Higgins, the great SN - 0020434901 (pbk.) AV - PZ7.H1828 Mac 1987 U1 - [Fic] 19 PY - 1987///, c1974 CY - New York, NY PB - Collier Books KW - Newbery Medal KW - 1975 KW - Afro-Americans KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Fiction KW - Coming of age KW - Family life KW - Ohio KW - Mountain life KW - Multicultural literature KW - local N1 - Newbery Medal 1975 N2 - 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 ER -