The Twelve-Fingered Boy

by John Hornor Jacobs

Book Overview

Fifteen-year-old Shreve Cannon doesn't mind juvie. He's got a good business dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day are more than his drunk mother managed to provide. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out. Then the new fish shows up.

Jack's a quiet kid. Small. Cries himself to sleep too. He's no standard-issue titty-baby, though. There's his hands--more specifically his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761390073
• ISBN13: 9780761390077
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab (R)
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12