47
By: by Walter Mosley
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780316016353
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Magic; Freedom; Juvenile fiction; Slavery; Liberty; Plantation life; Fiction; African Americans; History
Other titles: Forty-seven
Description: Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
Notes: Quills Award Young Adult Finalist, 2005

ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee, 2005