M.C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton
M.C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton
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M.C. Higgins, the Great

Author: Virginia Hamilton

Narrator: Roscoe Lee Browne

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/01/2013


Synopsis

"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.

About Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Hamilton (1936–2002) grew up in rural Ohio among an extended family and generations of storytellers. Her grandfather, Levi Perry, was brought by his mother from Virginia slavery to Ohio via the Underground Railroad. She received nearly every award in the field of children’s literature, including the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Newbery Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Coretta Scott King Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by DaNae on March 04, 2011

I'm at a loss, I either want to give this book five stars or one. I see by the average of almost exactly three I am not alone. It took me most of the week to get M.C. read. I’m not sure what I expected, by the title maybe something along the lines of Ramona the Brave or The Great Gilly Hopkins – a mi......more

Goodreads review by Amber on February 09, 2013

I'm sorry to say I didn't really enjoy this book. So far there hasn't been a Newberry Award winner I haven't liked, but I just didn't get this one. To start with, the pole was confusing. It's 40 high, and there's a bicycle seat on top, and pedals that do nothing, and only MC can climb it but it's al......more

Goodreads review by Benji on December 09, 2015

I'm kind of conflicted about this book. I see some good in it, but I really didn't enjoy reading it, especially the first 50 pages or so. As an adult novel, it might have been decent, but I think most kids would have some trouble following the Faulkner-like steam of consciousness writing. The only t......more

Goodreads review by Adriel on February 23, 2014

This is the kind of book that teachers assign kids that make them hate to read award winning books. It is clear that no kids sit on the award committees. I tried to like it, really, but I couldn't make it though for chapters. It was clear from the beginning nothing was going to happen like M.C. thou......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on July 20, 2014

(I always thought this would be a funny book--doesn't the title sound like the title of a funny book?--but it's not, at all.) This was an interesting book and the writing was lovely, but I thought it was trying to do too many different things--I'd like it better with more focus.......more