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.
- ISBN10 0316110353
- ISBN13 9780316110358
- Publish Date 3 November 2005 (first published 12 April 2005)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Little, Brown and Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English