Monday, April 25, 2011

47


by Walter Mosley
Lexile: 860
Genre: Historical Fiction

47 is a slave boy living on a plantation under a cruel master with little hope for a future. Until he meets a mysterious runaway slave named Tall John. Tall John forces 47 to think about his situation and his world differently and 47 soon finds that he is no longer able to accept the conditions of his slave life. He finds the strength and the courage to fight back against those who do not want him to have any freedom.

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