Savvy
Savvy
By Ingrid Law
Mibs Beaumont is about to become a teenager. As if that prospect weren’t scary enough, thirteen is when a Beaumont’s savvy strikes – and with one brother who causes hurricanes and another who creates electricity, her savvy promises to be outrageous… and positively thrilling.
But just before the big day, Poppa is in a terrible accident. Suddenly, Mibs’s dreams of X-ray vision disappear: All she wants now is a savvy that will save Poppa. In fact, Mibs is so sure she’ll get that powerful savvy that she sneaks a ride to the hospital aboard a rickety bus – with her siblings and the preacher’s kids in tow. But when the bus starts heading in the wrong direction only one thing is certain: After this extraordinary adventure, not a soul on that bus will ever be the same.
☆ A 2009 Newbery Honor Book
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Newbery Honor Book
New York Times Bestseller
Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award
An ALA Notable Book for Children
Oprah’s Reading List Pick
"A quirky feel-good narrative with a homespun warmth"—Sunday Times
"The countrified fantasy elements are great fun, and Mibs’ tenderness towards her father and other storm-tossed characters is touchingly real" — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"The countrified fantasy elements are great fun, and Mibs’ tenderness towards her father and other storm-tossed characters is touchingly real" —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ingrid Law has sold shoes, worked in a bookstore, helped other people get jobs, and assembled boxes for frozen eggplant burgers. She and her twelve-year-old daughter live in Boulder, Colorado, in a lovely old mobile home that they like to believe is a cross between a spaceship and a shoe box. They enjoy writing on its walls and painting on its ceiling, and have two harps, a flute, and a ukulele, as well as a fondness for muffins.