| Description |
278 pages ; 22 cm |
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age Age: Preteens lcdgt |
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edu Educational level: Middle school students lcdgt |
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edu Educational level: School children lcdgt |
| Awards |
Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Award, 1974 |
| Audience |
560L Lexile. |
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Decoding indicator: 90 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (high) Syntactic indicator: 90 (high) Structure indicator: 90 (high) Lexile. |
| Awards |
Newbery Medal, 1975 |
| Summary |
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 4.4 10.0 Kilgore Intermediate. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Observing play activity -- Principles of play -- Play activity and the representational world of the child -- The role of play activity in child psychotherapy -- Identifying play activity: Segmentation -- Descriptive analysis of play activity -- revisiting Johnny, Jane and Tom: descriptive analysis -- 1. Structural analysis of play activity -- 2. The adaptive player -- Adaptive strategies used by the child at play -- 3. The conflicted player -- Conflicted strategies used by the child at play -- 4. The rigid/ polarized player -- Rigid/ Polarized defensive strategies used by the child at play -- 5. The extremely anxious/ isolated player -- Defensive-coping strategies used by the extremely anxious/ isolated child -- 6. Play activity, the player and development of the self -- The function of play and playfulness -- Distinguishing reality from fantasy -- Coping/ Defensive play strategies and the child's emerging sense of self -- Coping/ defensive play strategies and the emergence of psychic reality -- Profiles of play as a measure for observation of a child's development. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction.
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Ohio -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Coming of age -- Fiction.
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Family life -- Ohio -- Fiction.
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Mountain life -- Ohio -- Fiction.
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Ohio -- Fiction.
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Ohio. (OCoLC)fst01205075
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Psychology, Child.
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| Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Juvenile literature -- New York -- New York -- 1974.
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Donors' copies (Provenance) MB
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Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) MB
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Curriculum resource.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. M.C. Higgins, the great. New York, Macmillan [1974] (OCoLC)576002298 |
| ISBN |
0027424804 |
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9780027424805 |
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0689830742 |
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9780689830747 |
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9780689716942 |
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068971694X |
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