Savvy

Title: Savvy
Author: Ingrid Law
Genre: Fiction
Reviewer: Sidd

Mibs (Mississippi) Beaumont is about to turn thirteen. In the Beaumont family, a thirteenth birthday isn’t about getting a new cell phone. It’s about getting your power, or your savvy. Mibs’s family includes 3 brothers and a baby sister, her mom, dad, and her grandfather. Her brother Rocket creates lightning. Her other brother Fish makes hurricanes. Her grandpa moves mountains. Her other sister and brother are too young. However, disaster strikes the night before her 13th birthday- her dad is in an enormous accident and is taken to the Salina Hope Hospital in Salina, Kansas. Her mom and Rocket go to Salina right after the incident. On the day of her birthday party, Mibs decided that she doesn’t care about her savvy anymore, and all that she wants is a savvy to save her dad. Along with her friends and siblings, they stowaway on a bus to Salina, but when things take a wrong turn, then, only, then, does the real adventure begin.

This book grabbed my interest because it interprets the use of southern vernacular. Also, it shows the youthful teenager in its early stages, but with a different twist. I recommend this book to anyone who is wistful for a good fictional and adventurous story. After reading this book, I think that I’ve even found my own savvy, and who’s to say you won’t either? So, go ahead! Read it!