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Savvy by Ingrid Law
Dial Books for Young Readers, 2008

 Reviewer recommended age 10 and up.


Summary

Mibs is anticipating her 13th birthday even more than most girls since that special day is when Beaumont kids find out what their "savvy" is.  One big brother electrifies everything around him and the other causes hurricanes so Mibs is hoping her savvy is exciting too.  But her birthday does not go at all like she planned and she soon finds herself on a bus with a group of extraordinary people trying to make her way to her father's hospital bedside.

Language

  • none

Sexual Situations

  • Two teen characters share a brief first kiss.
  • Two adult characters share a kiss.

Violence

  • Two boys have a fistfight.
  • One character is threatened with a knife.
  • A child is locked in a cabinet.

Drugs/Alcohol

  • A man is unconscious in an alley surrounded by empty bottles.

Race Issues

  • none

Religion

  • A local church, the pastor, and his family play a prominent role in the story.
  • Prayer is discussed.
  • One character makes a promise to God.
  • The bus is used by a company to deliver pink Bibles to different churches.

Politics

  • none

 

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