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.
- ISBN: 9780590672979
- Author: Hamilton, Virginia
- Published: 1996 , Scholastic, Inc.
- Themes: Environment, Family and social issues, Mines and mining, social justice
- Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), United States
- No. of pages: 278