Annal:1974 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry

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Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1974. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

M.C. Higgins, the Great

Virginia Hamilton

M.C.’s family is rooted to the slopes of Sarah’s Mountain. His great-grandmother escaped to the mountain as a runaway slave and made it her home. It bears her name, and her descendants have lived there ever since.

When M.C. looks out from atop the gleaming forty-foot pole that his father planted in the mountain for him—a gift for swimming the Ohio River—he sees only the rolling hills and shady valleys that stretch out for miles in front of him.

And M.C. knows why his father never wants his family to leave.

But when M.C. looks behind, he sees only the…

 
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