47 Cover:Paperback and realizes that even all-too-brief

and realizes that even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply

A Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year

The girls are thirteen when D’s mom swoops in to reclaim D—and as magically as she appeared

Tiki and Ronde keep their team together and help each other grow on and off the field

47 Cover:Paperback and realizes that even all-too-briefMaster storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. 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 runaway slave, Tall John. 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.