M. C. Higgins, the Great

M. C. Higgins, the Great

Infobox Book
name = M. C. Higgins, the Great
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image_caption = Cover of 25th anniversary edition
author = Virginia Hamilton
illustrator =
cover_artist = Leo and Diane Dillon
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Children's novel
publisher = Simon Pulse
release_date = 1975
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 288 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-689-84806-4
preceded_by =
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"M. C. Higgins, the Great" is a book by Virginia Hamilton that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1975. It also won the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the only book to do that. It is a coming of age novel; it tells the story of Mayo Cornelius Higgins: his childhood and early adult life. Its setting is along a mine on Sarah's Mountain, a fictional mountain in West Virginia near the Ohio River.

It has been translated into many languages, including Japanese and German.

It was also made into a 1987 movie.


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