thinks he’s found a solution to his problem, only to discover that the real answer, like the playful voices inside his head, lies in himself. When two strangers come to the mountain, M.C. knew - better than his family - that strip mining had reduced the outcropping upon which their cabin was built to rubble, and soon the spoilage would come raining down, burying their home forever. How he would have liked to stay there forever! But M.C. welcomed in the morning of a brand new day. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for M. There, on Sarah’s Mountain, with his face turned toward the sun and his arms spread wide, M.C. Higgins climbed the 40-foot steel pole near his house, he could see over the spiky treetops and far across the rolling emerald hills. Over and over again, it buried his family on the side of the mountain." (from M.C. He had nightmares in which the heap came tumbling down. Higgins, the Great, thirteen, is the oldest child who watches over his siblings from the top of a 40-foot pole, hunts with his hands, and rebelliously befriends a six-fingered boy whose family is considered witchy. As the pile grew enormous, so had M.C.’s fear of it. They began uprooting trees and pushing subsoil in a huge pile to get at the coal. "Two years ago bulldozers had come to make a cut at the top of Sarah’s Mountain.
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