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Title details for M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton - Available

M.C. Higgins, the Great

by Virginia Hamilton
Roscoe Lee Browne
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"Two years ago bulldozers had come to make a cut at the top of Sarah's Mountain. They began uprooting trees and pushing subsoil in a huge pile to get at the coal. As the pile grew enormous, so had M.C.'s fear of it. He had nightmares in which the heap came tumbling down. Over and over again, it buried his family on the side of the mountain."-from M.C. Higgins, the Great When M.C. Higgins climbed the 40-foot steel pole near his house, he could see over the spiky treetops and far across the rolling emerald hills. There, on Sarah's Mountain, with his face turned toward the sun and his arms spread wide, M.C. welcomed in the morning of a brand new day. How he would have liked to stay there forever! But M.C. knew-better than his family-that strip mining had reduced the outcropping upon which their cabin was built to rubble, and soon the spoilage would come raining down, burying their home forever. When two strangers come to the mountain, M.C. thinks he's found a solution to his problem, only to discover that the real answer, like the playful voices inside his head, lies in himself.

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  • Release date

    February 15, 1993

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449877460
      • File size: 242065 KB
      • Duration: 08:24:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 560
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Roscoe Lee Browne's reading voice is as rich as the language of Virginia Hamilton's Newbery Medal classic about a thirteen-year-old African-American boy who dreams of his family's escape from poverty and the dangers of the strip-mining slag heap that is slowly moving toward their home. Browne does not attempt an Appalachian dialect, but he individualizes the characters' voices superbly, making them both believable and unforgettable. He reads so expressively that the listener clearly senses the love shared by the members of the Higgins family and the strength of their bond to their Appalachian home. Browne's sensitive reading should make Hamilton's story more accessible to young people. It will haunt listeners and draw them back for repeated listening sessions, and those who turn to the book will find their own reading that much more satisfying as memories of Browne's exceptional narration linger. C.R.A. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 30, 1987
      This rare bookwinner of the Newbery Medaltells of a young boy's fighting chance to save his family's home. Ages 12-up.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:560
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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