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Name: M. C. Higgins, the Great
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Year: 1974
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Genres/categories: Young adult, Award winners, Historical fiction

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Winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books in 1975.
Winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1975.
Winner of the Newbery Medal award in 1975.
Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction in 1974.

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 the kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered.
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