The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy: The Twelve-Fingered Boy
Binding: Hardcover
Age 14+
Fantasy & Magical Realism
There are forces at work in the world beyond mere human understanding, and when those forces coalesce, the only solution may be a post-human solution. Juvenile inmates Shreveport Justice Cannon and Jack Graves become reluctant participants in the post-human solution when they become members of the Society of Extranaturals, just in time for the great evil that resides in Baltimore to awaken.
Creators
John Hornor Jacobs has worked in advertising for the last fifteen years, played in bands, and pursued art in various forms. He is also, in his copious spare time, a novelist. His first novel, Southern Gods, was nominated for an Edgar. The Twelve-Fingered Boy (Carolrhoda Lab, 2013), first a the trilogy of the same name, was praised by Booklist in a starred review as "an expertly spiced stew of attitude, humor, horror, and grief." It was his first work for young adults and won the Moonbeam Children's Book Gold Medal Award. The Shibboleth, the second book in trilogy, was published in spring of 2014. You can visit John at http://www.johnhornorjacobs.com
