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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
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Older Fiction
When the mysterious Quincrux and his witchy counterpart Ilsa begin stalking boys'-home residents Shreve and Jack, twelve-fin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
