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As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. 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, inclding a moutain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home. M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day atop his pole, he thinks he sees it-two strangers are making their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has a freedom that M.C. has never even considered. This is one of those rare books which draws the reader in with the first paragraph and keeps him or her turning the pages until the end.

M. C. Higgins, The Great. 93134 (6 cassettes/8.5 hours). Copyright 1974 by Virginia Hamilton. P 1993 by Recorded Books, Inc. Unabridged. Narrated by Roscoe Lee Browne. ISBN 1-55690-779-6. "Two years agao bulldozers had come to make a cut at the top of Sarah's Mountain. They began uprooting trees and pushing sub-soil 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." (from backcase)

Winner of the Newbery Medal Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction An ALA Notable Book 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. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it -- two strangers are making their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has a kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered.

A Newbery Medal Winner A National Book Award Winner A Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Winner 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. dreams of escape for himself and family. And one day, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it.