M.C. Higgins, the great : with connections / Virginia Hamilton.

• Connections: The banana tree (short story) / by James Berry -- Father (personal memoir) / by Gary Soto -- My mother pieced quilts (poem) / by Teresa Palomo Acosta -- Runaway! (historical essay) from North star to freedom: the story of the Underground Railroad / by Gena K. Gorrell -- Dreams (poem) ; Dream dust (poem) ; As I grew older (poem) / by Langston Hughes -- The war of the wall (short story) / by Toni Cade Bambara -- Virginia Hamilton (biographical sketch).

• 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. 

Ämnesord

African Americans  -- Juvenile fiction. (LCSH)

Family  -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction. (LCSH)

Mountain life  -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction. (LCSH)

African Americans  -- Fiction. (LCSH Children)

Coming of age  -- Fiction. (LCSH Children)

Family life  -- Ohio -- Fiction. (LCSH Children)

Mountain life  -- Ohio -- Fiction. (LCSH Children)

Ohio  -- Juvenile fiction. (LCSH)

Ohio  -- Fiction. (LCSH Children)

Klassifikation

PZ7.H1828 (LCC)

[Fic] (DDC)