TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamilton, Virginia.
AU  - Hamilton,Virginia
TI  - M.C. Higgins, the great: with connections 
T2  - HRW library
SN  - 0030546567 (trade)
AV  - PZ7.H1828 Mac 1999b
U1  - 810.8 22
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Austin
PB  - Holt, Rinehart and Winston
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Literary collections
KW  - sears
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - Collections
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Families
KW  - Family life
KW  - Mountain life
N1  - 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); Young Adult; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - 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
ER  -