M.C. Higgins, the great : with connections /
Virginia Hamilton.
- Austin : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1996.
- 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- HRW library .
- HRW library. .
Novel, followed by narratives and excerpts from related stories and a biographical sketch of the author.
Connections: The banana tree (short story) / by James Berry -- Father (personal memoir) / by Gary Soto -- My mother pieced quilts (poem) / by Teresa Palomo Acosta -- Runaway! (historical essay) from North star to freedom: the story of the Underground Railroad / by Gena K. Gorrell -- Dreams (poem) ; Dream dust (poem) ; As I grew older (poem) / by Langston Hughes -- The war of the wall (short story) / by Toni Cade Bambara -- Virginia Hamilton (biographical sketch).
Presents Virginia Hamilton's novel "M. C. Higgins, the Great," in which fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love as a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills; and includes a selection of related stories, poems, and essays.
Young Adult. Young Adult Follett Library Resources.
0030546567 (trade) 9780030546563 (trade)
2001269178
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