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Elizabeth Chandler has been hired to work on the script for the adaptation of the young-adult fantasy book Savvy for Walden Media.

Ingrid Law wrote the bestselling 2008 novel, which was published by Walden’s book division and honored with the Newberry award. It concerns Mibs Beaumont, who is about to turn thirteen years old — the age when members of her family receive their own special power, known as a “savvy.” But when her father is sent into a coma after a bad accident two days before her birthday and Mibs takes off to help him, she ends up on a wild adventure with her friends and equally savvy siblings.

Denise Di Novi (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and Alison Greenspan (Ramona and Beezus) are producing. Screenwriter Karen Janszen (Dolphin Tale) previously worked on the project.

Walden recently produced Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The company has Learning to Fly in production and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island hitting theaters in February.

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We had the chance to interview Ingrid Law about her books Savvy and Scumble as well as where she might take the series with a potential third book in the series.  We hope that you enjoy it!

WaldenFans.com: Tell us a bit about yourself, for our readers that might not know much about you.

Ingrid: I was born in New York, but my family moved to Colorado when I was six years old. I still live in Colorado with my daughter, who is sixteen now. We both love movies and books and writing.

My first book, Savvy, came out in 2008 and was published by Dial Books, in partnership with Walden Media. Among Savvy’s accolades and awards, it has received a Newbery Honor and a Boston Globe – Horn Book Honor; it became a New York Times bestseller, and was selected by Oprah Winfrey and Al Roker for their reading lists and book clubs. Savvy was also optioned for a feature film by Walden Media. I followed up Savvy with a companion book, titled Scumble, which came out in 2010 and immediately became a New York Times bestseller. I never expected such an amazing response to my books. I feel very blessed, not only because of the success of the books, but because of the wonderful people I’ve had a chance to meet and work with because of them.

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The National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) has named Ingrid Law’s SAVVY as one of its Gold Award winners.

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NBC’s Today show announced this morning that Ingrid Law’s Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestseller SAVVY will be Al Roker’s next Book Club Pick. The TV host and young fans will have a chance to interview the author in the studio during a live show later this summer. SAVVY was published under the joint venture between Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, and Walden Media and will soon be a major motion picture from Walden Media.

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John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to children’s literature. Neil Gaiman, author of “The Graveyard Book,” illustrated by Dave McKean and published by HarperCollins Children’s Books, is the 2009 Newbery Medal winner.

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Walden Media has tapped Karen Janszen to adapt Ingrid Law’s young-adult book “Savvy.”

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Walden Media invites you to discover how great ideas become great stories by joining their BookShare Club.

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Walden Media has snapped up feature rights to Ingrid Law’s debut novel “Savvy,” a tale of an adolescent girl with supernatural powers.

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