Mother/Daughter Reviews: Savvy by Ingrid Law

August 7, 2015     booklovi     Uncategorized

My daughter Skylar is an avid reader. She’s 9 going on 13 and loves to read as much as I do. Over the summer, she’s had a chance to read a lot of books. I thought it would be fun to ask her some questions about a book she’s read lately that she really loves. So today we’re talking about. . . .

Savvy by Ingrid Law

Dial Books
May 1st, 2008
342 pages

Source: Library

Rating:

 

Description:


For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a “savvy” -a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark electricity . . . and now it’s the eve of Mibs’s big day.

As if waiting weren’t hard enough, the family gets scary news two days before Mibs’s birthday: Poppa has been in a terrible accident. Mibs develops the singular mission to get to the hospital and prove that her new power can save her dad. So she sneaks onto a salesman’s bus . . . only to find the bus heading in the opposite direction. Suddenly Mibs finds herself on an unforgettable odyssey that will force her to make sense of growing up-and of other people, who might also have a few secrets hidden just beneath the skin.


What Skylar thought:



Me: So, Skylar, tell me a little bit about this book. What’s it about?

Skylar: It’s about this family. You could kind of say they have powers. They get them when they turn 13. Mibs is about to turn 13 and she’s about to get her savvy or her powers. Her dads about to come home but gets in a bad car accident. The hospital is really far away and they sneak onto this bus to get there. Mibs thought her savvy was being able to wake things up and she thought she could save her father but that’s not what it ends up being.

Me: Who is your favorite character?

Skylar: I have a lot of favorite characters but my main one is Mibs. I like her because she is brave and she’s really nice to go so far to save her father.

Me: Would you say this book is funny or sad?

Skylar: At some parts it is funny but other parts are sad.

Me: Is there a lot of action, do exciting adventures happen?

Skylar: Well, the whole thing is kind of a big adventure. One example is that there’s a truck and it has to make a bunch of deliveries and they have to go on all the deliveries before they go to the hospital. They pick up this girl because her car broke down and that got them in a lot of trouble too.

Me: What was your favorite part of the book?

Skylar: I don’t want to say too much but i’ll give you one part. The woman they took on the bus asks them what’s really happening and they have to tell her that their parents don’t really know they are on this trip. She makes them call their parents and they have to trick her so she thinks that they really called them. The have to be super convincing because she would notice if they were lying.  

Me: What makes this book so good?

Skylar: I think its good because it has a lot of action and it has funny parts too. It was really interesting to read.

Me: Do you think other kids or adults would like to read it? Would I like to read it?

Skylar: I believe kids that really like to read would like it. It’s really long though and its kind of an adult book but its supposed to be sort of for kids too. I think you’d like it. I would recommend it for you to read.

Thank you Skylar!! It was fun talking to you about books! Next week, we’ll have my middle daughter Savannah talk to us about one of the books she has been reading!! Passing on a love of reading is one of the awesome parts of being a parent.


About the Author:

Ingrid Law is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels for young readers, Savvy and Scumble. Law’s books have been placed on over 25 state reading lists and have earned accolades from Publisher’s Weekly, Oprah’s reading list, the Today Show‘s Al Roker’s Book Club for Kids, and Smithsonian. Savvy was named a Newbery Honor book in 2009. Law lives in Lafayette, Colorado, where she writes full time and is currently working on her next novel.

 

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