 M. C. Higgins, the Great

M. C. Higgins, the Great, first published in 1974, is a realistic novel by Virginia Hamilton that won the 1975 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature.It also won the National Book Award in category Children's Books
and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; it was the first book to do so, and only one other book has done so since ("Holes", by Louis Sachar).