M. C. Higgins, the Great

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Summary: The great book of M.C.
Review: I had to read this book when I was doing a book project for my school and I thought it was great! I thought that the plot and charecters were very developed and the setting was very nice. I thought that most parts were suspensful, exiting, or joyful, but others that were kind of boring.

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Summary: CAUTION: EXTREMELY BORING BOOK
Review: I have read all the Newbery Medals, and I have to say that besides Waterless Mountain (which thankfully is out of print), this is the most boring book I have every read. You have to slog through fifty pages to grasp what happens for five minutes. The writing is poor and non-gripping, the characters are confusing and so is the plot, and it is way too long for the lack of plot (278 pages covers two days!)All in all, a horrible book.

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Summary: This is one of the best Newbery books I have read.
Review: I have read MCHiggins the Great so many times my copy is falling apart. I've read a lot of Newbery books too, and this is one of the best. In some ways it is the best. Each time I read it, I see more. First the scene is one that will stay with you long after you close the book--the hills of Eastern Kentucky that MC walks, his house, his mountain, the pole he sits on, looking out over all these hills. Then the people are unforgettable. MC's best friend, Ben, has the most unique family you will ever meet in fiction, very strange but very loving with magical connections to nature. They are vegetarians, who live on an Appalachian family commune. The mother is a healer. MC's own family includes a mother who could be a famous folksinger if she wanted to leave home, a father who is tied to the hills because his own mother, a ghostly presence in the book, owned the mountain where they lived. She was an ex-slave, and her courage has seeped into MC. He must save his f! amily from a heap of soil that is threatening to bury his home and family, because of stripmining interests in the area, and he does at last find the way to do this. But not before he has a lot of fun chasing a girl who isn't going to be caught, hunting rabbits, swimming, listening to a city "dude" who wants to make his mother a star and imagining what this would be like, visiting his best friend's family, taking care of his spunky and sassy little sister, and sitting on his pole watching the world and trying to find his place in it. This book was written 25 years ago, but it is timeless. It's about teen feelings and finding your identity. It's about father and son conflicts and teen romance. It's about nature and the environment. Most of all, it's about family heritage, and taking a stand for what you believe in. Newbery books are for everyone--people of all ages, colors, regions, genders, cultures. And this is a classic Newbery --it's a rainbow of ideas an! d experiences, with a pot of gold waiting on the last page.

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Summary: Jessica's review on M.C. Higgin's the Great
Review: I like the book M.C. Higgins the Great, because it was kind of interesting.I say it's interesting, because of M.C.being scared of the spoil heap and you know you be wanting to know whats going to happend next.Also what interest me was when M.C. and the girl were like wrestling in the woods.I liked the story a whole lot, because it was different and full of guessing what's going to happened next.

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Summary: Shakeya's Review on M.C. Higgins
Review: I liked the book M.C. Higgins the Great because Virginia Hamilton made the book interesting. M.C. is a very caring person and he is also friendly. The best part in the book is when M.C. tried to help his mother get a job by getting the Dude to record his mothers voice. M.C cares a lot about his family and he is very loving. I really enjoyed the book M.C. Higgins The Great it was a good book.

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Summary: Brittney's Review on M.C. Higgins
Review: I liked this book M.C. Higgins the great because I think that he is very caring, and he likes to imagine things. He is very curious on things and he loves his family. He worries about his home getting spoiled on. He wonders about what it would be like if his mom becomes a singer, and they can live in a better home, and his family wouldn't have to be poor. I liked this book ,and i think it was very interesting.

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Summary: Poor choice for an award
Review: I must have missed something. Somebody must have thought this was a great book and gave it many awards, but it was a real struggle to finish this book. The events were totally unbeleivable and down right ridiculous. And it took 278 pages to cover just two days in the life of M.C.. I enjoy readng but I sure wouldn't ever reread this book or recommend this book.

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Summary: Over-rated. Not likely to "turn" your child onto reading
Review: I recall choosing this book to write a book review on when I was a young teenager. I found it to be heavy-going. On nearly every level it failed to keep my interest. I don't remember the plot that well, except for the first few pages, which I read over and over trying to get a grip on the style (so to speak) but I do remember it seemed to jump around a lot, and not in a *good* way. I didn't "connect" with the characters at all, and thus I didn't care how the plot eventuated.

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Summary: M C learns of his heritage, and respect for his community.
Review: M.C. Higgins is a young adult book, and not an easy one. Much of the plot is expressed through the structure of descriptive passages. It is a rural book, with personal expressions of social conditions. There is a deep sense of family and kinship here, pressured by the stresses of polution, strip-mining and the eroding moutainous landscape. M.C. sits up on his pole most of the time dreaming some sort of success for his mother, who has a magnificent voice, and for some amount of peace and freedom for himself. What he discovers finally is an understanding of himself and his environment, an understanding of his friends, the witchy people; of his forbidding father; of the dude,who might take his mother's voice and make her a star; and of Lurhetta Outlaw, the girl who wanders through the hill country and teaches M.C. about survival. There's a lot to this book. But a young person reading it needs to be old enough and skilled enough to read through it's complexity. It is ! not a simple one idea novel. M.C. Higgins, The Great is my most award-winning book, having taken all the major awards in the United States in the field of youth literature in the year it was published. It took me more than two years to write, working every day except Saturdays and Sundays. I feel very satisfied with what it accomplishes.

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Summary: M.C. Higgins The Great
Review: Mayo Cornelisus Higgins was a boy, Who was raised in the arms of the world.Mayo was called M.C. for short.His mother was a star singer.M.C. lived in the Sarah's mountain's.M.C. grandmother was a runaway slave,with a lot of strenght...One of M.C. dreams was to save his family's home from Strip-Miners. I thought this was a book that taught you a lot about how wonderful freedom is to everyone.