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.
year: 1999
call number/section: 1000
subjects: african americans, juvenile literature, families, mountain life, american literature, 20th century, literary collections