''The Twelve-Fingered Boy'' is a 2013 young adult novel by

John Hornor Jacobs John Hornor Jacobs is an American author, best known for the novel ''Southern Gods'', which began as a rough draft created through the NaNoWriMo process, and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2011. His 2015 novel ''For ...

. It is about teenagers, Shreve Cannon, and Jack Graves, who have

psychic abilities This is a list of alleged psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities pertain to variations of extrasensory perception or the ''sixth sense''. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included. Psyc ...

Reception

A review in '' Publishers Weekly'' of ''The Twelve Fingered Boy'' wrote "Jacobs skillfully builds tension and mystery throughout.", while ''

Kirkus Reviews ''Kirkus Reviews'' (or ''Kirkus Media'') is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980). The magazine is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fic ...

'' wrote "Against the plethora of mutant and superhuman narratives, this effort just feels shopworn.". ''The Twelve-Fingered Boy'' has also been reviewed by '' Booklist'', '' School Library Journal'', '' Horn Book Guides'' ''Library Media Connection'', and Common Sense Media. It won a 2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Award gold medal.

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Library holdings of ''The Twelve Fingered Boy''
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