Twelve-Fingered Boy

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, thou...