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.
- ISBN10 0020434901
- ISBN13 9780020434900
- Publish Date 31 December 1987 (first published 1 August 1974)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan
- Edition Collier Books ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 278
- Language English