M.C. Higgins, the Great
M.C. Higgins, the Great
Hamilton, Virginia
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Aladdin
Annotation: 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.
Genre: [Realistic fiction] [Historical fiction]
 
Reviews: 8
Catalog Number: #4831089
Format: Paperback
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Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Aladdin
Copyright Date: 2002
Edition Date: 2006 Release Date: 05/01/06
Pages: 271 pages
ISBN: 1-416-91407-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-416-91407-5
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 92027919
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Subject Heading:
Family life. Ohio. Fiction.
African Americans. Fiction.
Coming of age. Fiction.
Mountain life. Ohio. Fiction.
Family life. Ohio. Juvenile fiction.
African Americans. Juvenile fiction.
Coming of age. Juvenile fiction.
Mountain life. Ohio. Juvenile fiction.
Ohio. Juvenile fiction.
Ohio. Fiction.
Language: English
Reviews:
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This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the award-winning book features a new introduction by the author.

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Word Count: 69,544
Reading Level: 4.4
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.4 / points: 10.0 / quiz: 125 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:6.2 / points:16.0 / quiz:Q07182
Lexile: 560L
Guided Reading Level: X
Fountas & Pinnell: X

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.

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