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.

Watch Kathie Lee Gifford talk Savvy on The Today Show.
Listen to Ingrid Law interviewed on Book Bites for Kids.
Listen to Ingrid Law interviewed on James Patterson’s Read Kiddo Read.

Published: 5/12/2008 (Walden Media/Dial Books for Young Readers)