M. C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton - Shelfari

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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.... read more

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MAYO CORNELIUS HIGGINS RAISED HIS ARMS HIGH TO THE SKY and spread them wide.

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Virginia Hamilton (Author)

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Newbery Medal (1975, winner)

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