
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

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Narrator: Roscoe Lee Browne
Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/01/2013
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.
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
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
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
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
(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