Book description
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…
Why read it?
1 author picked M.C. Higgins, the Great as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I felt Mayo Cornelius Higgins's connection to the land he and his family live on deep in my heart.
It's something I feel about the land I live on, and I recognize how the smells, sounds, sights, and history of a place can become part of your soul. It's a book I've reread many times, and I always see something new in it.
From Betty's list on Betty Culley's favorite environmental themed novels for middle graders.
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