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About The Book
Discover this transcendent 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, 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.
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.
Product Details
- Publisher: Aladdin (May 1, 2006)
- Length: 288 pages
- ISBN13: 9781416914075
- Ages: 8 - 12
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Awards and Honors
- National Book Award Winner
- ALA Newbery Medal
- ALA Notable Children's Books
- Horn Book Fanfare
- SLJ Best of the Best Books
- Oregon Battle of the Books List
- New York Times Outstanding Children's Books of The Year
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
- Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
- Hans Christian Andersen Award, US Honor
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