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 Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah’s Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home.

M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it—two strangers are making their way toward Sarah’s Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.’s mother famous. And the other has the kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered.

  少年希金斯一家生活在一座大山中，他经常爬到院子里的长杆上向远处眺望，渴望到外面的世界看一看。这座大山因无节制的开矿而随时可能崩塌，一家人日后注定要搬到大山之外。然而，父亲固执己见，坚决不肯离开大山，还因迷信而禁止希金斯和好友本见面。直到一天，一个叫洛蕾塔的女孩来到这里，她独立自强、不盲从的性格，深深地影响了希金斯，促使他的内心开始发生变化。

本书展现了一个男孩如何冲破权威桎梏发展出自己独立人格的蜕变历程，告诉读者独立自强、不盲从的重要性。
对自然景色细致的描写以及男孩内心独白的细腻展示是本书的一大亮点，能够使读者更自然地代入男孩的生活中，更直观体会男孩心理蜕变的过程。