Walter Mosley: 47 (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
A gripping Young Adult fiction debut by bestselling author Walter Mosley.
Walter Mosley is one of the best known writers in America. In his first book for young adults, Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom. 47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious run-away slave, Tall John. Then 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.

Walter Mosley: 47. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, ISBN 0316016357 (January, 2006), 240 p., $7.99.

Walter Mosley: 47 (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
The story you are about to read concerns certain events that occurred in the early days of my life. It all happened over a hundred and seventy years ago. For many of you it might sound like a tall tale because I am no older today than I was back in the year 1832. But this is no whopper I'm telling; it is a story about my boyhood as a slave and my fated encounter with the Amazing Tall John from beyond Africa, who could read dreams, fly between salaxies, and make friends with any animal no matter how wild.

Walter Mosley: 47. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, ISBN 0316110353 (May, 2005), 232 p., $16.99.