Savvy

Savvy / by Ingrid Law.—Complementary Teacher's edition. – New York : Puffin ; Boston. : Walton Media, c2010.
342, [38], 14 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
"Includes almost 50 pages of bonus teaching materials, discussion questions, a special Q&A with Ingrid Law, notes from the 2009 Newbery Committee, and a sneak peak at Scumble, the next Savvy adventure!"

1. Fantasy fiction. 2. Kansas – Fiction. 3. Nebraska – Fiction. 4. Superheroes – Fiction.

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Mibs Beaumont—Mibs is the nickname her baby sister gave her; her full first name is Mississippi—is looking forward with anxious anticipation to her thirteenth birthday. It’s only two days away and it’s the usual age when the members of her family first manifest their savvy. When her older brother Fish turned thirteen he caused a hurricane. Her “Great-aunt Jules…could step back twenty minutes in time every time she sneezed…second cousin Olive…could melt ice with a single red-hot stare,” and her brother Rocket could create an enormous amount of electricity.

But Mibs’s birthday suspense is crushed by a horrible highway accident. Suddenly, her father, a man without any savvy, is in a coma in the far away Salina Hope Hospital. When Rocket and her mother drive off to be with him Mibs and the rest of her large family are stranded with the preacher’s family, and Mibs knows that she just has to get to Salina and she will do anything to get there.