The Twelve-Fingered Boy ( Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy #01 ) by Jacobs, John Hornor
	List Price:   $9.95 Unit Price:   $7.96 You Save:   $1.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   1467737062 ISBN-13:   9781467737067 Publisher:   Lerner; Carolrhoda Books Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   March 2014 Pages:   264 Format:   Paperback Ages:   14 to 17
Description/Notes
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 handsmore specifically his fingers, all twelve of 'em. And when he gets angry, something weird happens. The air wavers. You feel a slight pressure in your chest. And then...well, best take cover. Jack isn't the only new face in juvie. There's Mr. Quincrux. Quincrux has an unusual interest in Jack and Shreve, and it quickly becomes clear that innocent bystanders aren't going to get in his way. So Jack and Shreve bust out. On the lam, they quickly discover that Jack has abilitieshell, superpowersthat might just give them a fighting chance against Quincrux, if they can stay alive long enough to figure them out.