Slake's Limbo: 121 Days

An ALA Best Books for Young Adults An ALA Notable Children's Book An ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults The Horn Book Fanfare List Desperate, driven, harassed to the breaking point, Slake decides to go underground—into the sheltering depths of the New York City Subway where he ends up staying for one hundred and twenty-one days. This is the story about survival, and about a 13-year-old misfit's attempts to find footing in a hostile and threatening world.