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The Twelve-Fingered Boy
By JACOBS, John Hornor
- ISBN
- 978-0-7613-9007-7 978-1-4677-0950-7
- Publisher
- Carolrhoda Lab.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 8–10—Though basically a good kid, 15-year-old Shreve Cannon is serving two years in an Arkansas juvenile detention center for stealing. His survival strategies of dealing candy and being sarcastic add humor to this suspenseful novel. When 13-year-old Jack Graves becomes his new roommate, Shreve concludes that Jack is different for more than just his additional fingers. It is revealed during an interview with the mysterious Mr. Quincrux that when Jack gets ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on February 1, 2013
"It's a monster of a world" for fifteen-year-old Shreve Cannon, incarcerated in Casimir Pulaski Juvenile Detention Center for Boys: "not quite prison. Not quite a Hilton." Words are Shreve's thing -- how he sells contraband candy, how he survives in a sometimes brutal world. But words fail him when he's assigned a new roommate, Jack Graves -- "slight, pale, and still," with large brown eyes, a dead voice, and twe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
