W. Ross Macdonald School Library

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Mosley, Walter, 1952- , author.

47 / Forty-seven by Walter Mosley. - First paperback edition. - New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2006, c2005. - viii, 232 pages ; 19 cm

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.

Teen / young adult.

0316016357 9780316016353


Slavery--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Plantation life--Fiction.
Liberty--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.


Georgia--History--1775-1865--Fiction.


FICTION / Science Fiction / Alien Contact.
FICTION / African American & Black / Historical.

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