MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01879cam a2200373 a 4500
001 2001269178
003 DLC
005 20090707093642.0
008 010502s1999 txu j 000 1 eng d
010 $a 2001269178
020 $a0030546567
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm42280665
040 $aTHM$cTHM$dOCL$dDLC
042 $alcac$alccopycat
050 00 $aPZ7.H1828$bMac 1999b
082 00 $a[Fic]$221
100 1 $aHamilton, Virginia,$d1936-2002.
245 10 $aM.C. Higgins, the great :$bwith connections /$cVirginia Hamilton.
260 $aAustin :$bHolt, Rinehart and Winston,$c[1999?]
300 $a319 p. ;$c22 cm.
440 0 $aHRW library
500 $aNovel, followed by narratives and excerpts from related stories and a biographical sketch of the author.
586 $aNewbery Medal, 1975
520 $aAs 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.
505 0 $aConnections: 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).
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 $aFamilies$zOhio$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 $aMountain life$zOhio$vJuvenile fiction.
651 0 $aOhio$vJuvenile fiction.
650 1 $aAfrican Americans$vFiction.
650 1 $aComing of age$vFiction.
650 1 $aFamily life$zOhio$vFiction.
650 1 $aMountain life$zOhio$vFiction.
651 1 $aOhio$vFiction.