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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: (pp 47- 53) M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Description:
Discover this middle grade
masterpiece about a young black boy whose quiet rural live in the Appalachian
Mountains begins to change—winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book
Award, and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. 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,
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